• Craft and Criticism

    Poetry

    The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

    By Laura Buccieri  August 30, 2019
    Punctuation

    The Virtues of the Semicolon; or, Rebellious Punctuation

    By Cecelia Watson  August 29, 2019
    The West

    John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961

    By John Williams  August 29, 2019
    Capitalism

    What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

    By Terrence Holt  August 29, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Bob Eckstein Draws His Way Through the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference

    By Bob Eckstein  August 29, 2019
    Literary History

    The Fall and Rise of William Stoner

    By Steve Almond  August 29, 2019
    Criticism

    My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

    By Marcos Gonsalez  August 29, 2019
    Language

    On the Politics of Italics

    By Jumoke Verissimo  August 28, 2019
    Literary Legends

    Tracking Down My Literary Idol to a San Francisco Commune

    By Philippe Aronson  August 28, 2019
    Political Conversation

    Journalist Peter Hessler on Moving to Egypt After the Revolution

    By Dylan Foley  August 28, 2019
    Criticism

    How to Review a Novel

    By Mary-Kay Wilmers  August 27, 2019
    Tarot

    Why Are Writers Particularly
    Drawn to Tarot?

    By Rochelle Spencer  August 27, 2019
    Education

    In Praise of the High School English Teacher

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 27, 2019
    Guns

    Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

    By Chuck Augello  August 26, 2019
    Grief

    Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

    By Kelsey Ronan  August 26, 2019
    Craft

    Pamela Paul on Her Long Path to Becoming a Writer and Editor

    By But That's Another Story  August 26, 2019
    American Classics

    Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

    By Jenny Zhang  August 23, 2019
    Drafts

    Susan Steinberg on the Value of Writing an Ugly Draft

    By Diane Cook  August 23, 2019
    Immigration

    Suketu Mehta on Fighting
    Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

    By Dylan Foley  August 23, 2019
    On Poetry

    Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

    By Sara Martin  August 22, 2019
    Art Criticism

    Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

    By Dorothy Parker  August 22, 2019
    Empire

    Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

    By Luke Harding  August 22, 2019
    Poetry

    J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry

    By J. M. G. Le Clézio  August 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

    By Lara Vapnyar  August 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

    By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
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