• Craft and Criticism

    Literary History

    Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

    By John McIntyre  June 26, 2020
    Interview

    Ottessa Moshfegh’s Year of Anything But Rest and Relaxation

    By Kristin Iversen  June 25, 2020
    Time

    On Orlando, and Virginia Woolf’s Defiance of Time

    By Theodore Martin  June 25, 2020
    Flying

    How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

    By Richard Farrell  June 25, 2020
    Writing Conferences

    Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa’s Disquiet

    By Thomas Swick  June 24, 2020
    Feminist History

    Vivian Gornick on the “Forgotten” Wife of Victorian Novelist, George Meredith

    By Vivian Gornick  June 24, 2020
    5 Questions

    Roddy Doyle on Writing: Start With Quantity, Worry About Quality Later

    By Literary Hub  June 23, 2020
    Language

    I Can’t Believe Readers Are Still Getting Upset Over F*cking Swearing

    By Amy Poeppel  June 22, 2020
    Translation

    Encountering Hervé Guibert’s Anti-Utopian Men

    By Jeffrey Zuckerman  June 22, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Celebrating Yahya Hassan,
    Poet, Rebel

    By Jamal Mahjoub  June 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction

    By Irina Dumitrescu  June 19, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Delight is Essential: On Reading Ross Gay in Terrible Times

    By Sara B. Franklin  June 18, 2020
    Classics

    An Ode to Valley of the Dolls, Irresistible Train Wreck

    By Stephen Rebello  June 18, 2020
    Audiobooks

    In Utter Celebration of Juliet Stevenson’s Brilliance as an Audiobook Narrator

    By Scott Spencer  June 17, 2020
    Literary History

    Robert Walser and Jean Genet’s Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

    By Moyra Davey  June 17, 2020
    The Art of the List

    Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

    By Emily Temple  June 16, 2020
    Identities

    Writing a Novel of Things Unattained

    By Zaina Arafat  June 16, 2020
    Gun violence

    On Writing a Collective Poem in Response to Chicago Gun Violence

    By Chris Green  June 16, 2020
    Police

    On Charles Dickens’ Devious, Hypocritical “Nice Guy” Cop

    By Olivia Rutigliano  June 12, 2020
    Memoir

    How to Grieve the Living: A Conversation with Stephanie Danler

    By Francesca Pellas  June 12, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Changing Me to We: We Should All Try Writing in the First Person Plural

    By Sharon Harrigan  June 12, 2020
    End Times

    On the Resolute Nihilism of a True End Times Classic

    By Liam Pieper  June 11, 2020
    Literary History

    How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

    By Alice Miller  June 11, 2020
    Trans Rights

    How JK Rowling Betrayed the World
    She Created

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 10, 2020
    Poets

    On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

    By Jonathan Bate  June 10, 2020
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