• Craft and Criticism

    Feature

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

    By Emily Temple  February 8, 2019
    Essay

    Why We Write About Our Oldest Wounds

    By Mateo Askaripour  February 8, 2019
    Conversations

    On Translating Bolaño (and His Obsessions)

    By Literary Hub  February 8, 2019
    Advice

    What If All Writing is Just Drafts, Forever?

    By Joseph Scapellato  February 7, 2019
    Excerpts

    On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

    By William C. Carter  February 7, 2019
    Native American Lit

    Indigenous Imaginations: Native American Writers on Their Communities

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 7, 2019
    Essay

    What Collecting 100 Rejections Taught Me About Creative Failure

    By Kim Liao  February 6, 2019
    Essay

    Is Line Editing a Lost Art?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 6, 2019
    Conversations

    Talking Shop With Elizabeth McCracken

    By Elizabeth McCracken  February 6, 2019
    What's Love Got to Do with it

    All About Love: Talking Romance Novels with Bree Hill

    By Reading Women  February 6, 2019
    Conversations

    Esmé Weijun Wang on Karaoke, Work Ethic, and Returning to Fiction

    By R.O. Kwon  February 6, 2019
    Hollywood

    Duke Haney on Gentrification, Golden Age Films, and Jim Morrison

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 6, 2019
    Translation

    Ten Thoughts on Having Your Novel Translated into Your Native Tongue

    By Johannes Lichtman  February 5, 2019
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 5, 2019
    Epidemics

    Karen Thompson Walker Talks Ishiguro, Saramago, and Hypochondria

    By So Many Damn Books  February 5, 2019
    Essay

    Katharine Smyth: Forgetting Virginia Woolf

    By Katharine Smyth  February 4, 2019
    Essay

    On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter”

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico’s Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

    By Claire Mullen  February 1, 2019
    Conversations

    Sam Lipsyte on Cults, Wellness and Cutting Through the Dumb Noise

    By Annie DeWitt  February 1, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

    By Tobias Carroll  February 1, 2019
    Essay

    Designing My Characters’ Homes Helps Me Write

    By Lisa Gornick  February 1, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Living Fernando Pessoa’s Dreamlife in Lisbon

    By Saleem Haddad  January 31, 2019
    Essay

    On Finding My Way Back to Writing After Years Away

    By Sibylla Nash  January 31, 2019
    Deep Dive

    But What Will Your Daughters Think?

    By Emily Bernard  January 30, 2019
    Design

    How Learning to Draw Can Help a Writer to See

    By Kiley Bense  January 30, 2019
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