• Craft and Criticism

    On Race

    I spoke with a friend of Robert and Mabel Williams about Negroes With Guns and BLM.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 18, 2020
    Theater

    Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

    By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
    Energy

    ‘We’re Looking at a New Cold War’: A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

    By Bill Cohan  September 18, 2020
    Teaching

    On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

    By Literary Hub  September 18, 2020
    New Books Network

    Premee Mohamed and
    Her Protagonists Want to Save the World

    By New Books Network  September 18, 2020
    On Craft

    Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

    By Lincoln Michel  September 17, 2020
    Science fiction

    How a 1960s Sci-Fi Fable Expanded the Meaning of Cuban Pilgrimages

    By Yoss   September 17, 2020
    NewberyTart

    The Importance of Taking Girls’ Emotions Seriously in Literature

    By NewberyTart   September 17, 2020
    On Translation

    How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition

    By Anne Posten  September 16, 2020
    In Memoriam

    The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

    By Alane Salierno Mason  September 16, 2020
    In Memoriam

    A Close Reading of Randall Kenan, Who Paid Rare Attention to Black Complexity

    By Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques  September 16, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Singer-Songwriter Erika Ender on Vulnerability and Hope in Tough Times

    By Literary Hub  September 16, 2020
    Thresholds

    Cathy Park Hong on Motherhood and Turning From Poetry to Prose

    By Thresholds   September 16, 2020
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    A Not Entirely Safe for Work Conversation with Mary Beard

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 16, 2020
    WMFA

    Margaret Wilkerson Sexton on Listening to Your Inner Voice

    By WMFA   September 16, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Raven Leilani on Disco, Nail Polish, and Writing Like No One’s Watching

    By So Many Damn Books  September 16, 2020
    Otherppl

    Kathleen Rooney on the Risk of Losing Readers by Narrating from a Pigeon’s Point of View

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Two Anthologies That Center Race and Disability

    By Reading Women  September 16, 2020
    5 Questions

    Walter Mosley: When I’m Telling a Story I Imagine the Eavesdropper Over My Shoulder

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2020
    Publishing

    In Case You Need Reminding, a Book is Not a Baby

    By Ayden LeRoux  September 15, 2020
    Storybound

    Phil Klay Reads From His Forthcoming Novel, Missionaries

    By Storybound   September 15, 2020
    Literary Disco

    Literary Disco Discusses Jericho Brown’s The Tradition

    By Literary Disco  September 15, 2020
    War

    War, Anonymity, and the Dangerous Line Between Truth and Fiction

    By Eva Nour  September 14, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The Most Savage Book Reviews of All Time

    By History of Literature  September 14, 2020
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