• Craft and Criticism

    Literary Disco

    When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

    By Literary Disco  September 1, 2020
    On Race

    Angela Davis on International Solidarity and the Future of Black Radicalism

    By Verso Books   August 31, 2020
    Craft

    On Repetition As a Powerful
    Literary Tool

    By Geraldine Woods  August 31, 2020
    Irish Literature

    The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

    By R. F. Foster  August 31, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

    By Caryl Emerson  August 31, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The Ecstasy of Reading (and Rereading) Anna Karenina

    By History of Literature  August 31, 2020
    First Draft

    R.L. Maizes on Internalizing the Pain and Feelings of Animals

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 31, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline, Read by Michelle St. John

    By Behind the Mic   August 31, 2020
    Virginia Woolf

    She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

    By Heather O'Neill  August 28, 2020
    Diarists

    Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

    By Eric Weiner  August 28, 2020
    Latin American Literature

    Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

    By Juan Toledo  August 28, 2020
    Bookable

    Raven Leilani: How Much Are You Willing to Struggle?

    By Bookable   August 28, 2020
    New Books Network

    Edward Farmer on Capturing Greenwood, Mississippi in Fiction

    By New Books Network  August 28, 2020
    On Race

    The Year Afropessimism Hit the Streets?:
    A Conversation at the Edge of the World

    By Aaron Robertson  August 27, 2020
    Illustrations

    An Illustrator Brings Realism into Octavia Butler’s Speculative Fiction

    By Aaron Robertson  August 27, 2020
    Craft

    The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic

    By Eugen Bacon  August 27, 2020
    Westerns

    On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America’s Surreal Borderlands

    By Mike Soto  August 26, 2020
    Indigenous Lit

    Joy Harjo on the Diverse, Groundbreaking World of Indigenous Poetry

    By Joy Harjo  August 26, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    Devon Gilfillian Wants You to Write For You

    By Literary Hub  August 26, 2020
    Adaptations

    Was The Graduate Inspired by a Brontë Family Scandal?

    By Finola Austin  August 26, 2020
    On Race

    The Satire That Takes on Punk, Richmond, and the Trope of the Magical Black Friend

    By Chris L. Terry and Mensah Demary  August 26, 2020
    Thresholds

    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Turning Her Work Towards Herself

    By Thresholds   August 26, 2020
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Contemporary Japanese Writers in Translation

    By Reading Women  August 26, 2020
    WMFA

    Lisa Ko on Fictionalizing
    Real Life

    By WMFA   August 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Do we really need another book about Henry David Thoreau?

    By Jonny Diamond  August 25, 2020
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