• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Nature Writing

    Helen Macdonald: The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature

    By Helen Macdonald  August 25, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Rediscovering Drawing During Lockdown

    By David Farrier  August 25, 2020
    AI

    On the Difficulty of Finding a Distinct Human Voice for
    an AI Heroine

    By Ros Anderson  August 25, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir, Read by Rosalyn Landor

    By Behind the Mic   August 25, 2020
    On Race

    Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

    By Michael Gorra  August 24, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Three Authors Leave, Stay, Dream, and Long for Elsewhere

    By Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans  August 24, 2020
    The History of Literature

    What Does Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Offer Readers Today?

    By History of Literature  August 24, 2020
    Motherhood

    A Conversation About Childcare, Self-Expectations, and the Fragility of American Systems

    By Literary Hub  August 24, 2020
    Migrations

    In Life as in Mythology, Greece is a Place of Frustrated Migrations

    By Matteo Nucci  August 24, 2020
    First Draft

    Benjamin Nugent on Writing About Male Privilege After #MeToo

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 24, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: In Conversation with Sandman Producer Dirk Maggs

    By Behind the Mic   August 24, 2020
    The Internet

    One Way to Write About a Millennial Protagonist? Don’t Settle on a Single Form.

    By Emma Jane Unsworth  August 21, 2020
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