• Craft and Criticism

    Asian American Literature

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  June 21, 2019
    Anthologies

    On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

    By Lucy Caldwell  June 21, 2019
    Climate Change

    We’re Doomed. Now What?
    Roy Scranton on Climate Change

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  June 21, 2019
    Close Reading

    The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

    By Danielle Dutton  June 21, 2019
    Existentialism

    The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction

    By André Naffis-Sahely  June 21, 2019
    Literary History

    The Poet and the Monk:
    An Anne Sexton Love Story

    By Nick Ripatrazone  June 20, 2019
    Animals

    Why Does Losing a Pet Hurt So Much?

    By Jacky Colliss Harvey  June 20, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray

    By Emily Temple  June 20, 2019
    Criticism

    The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy

    By Antonia Pont  June 20, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    “The Stonewall Revolution is Still Happening”

    By Corinne Segal  June 19, 2019
    Rejection

    “Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  June 19, 2019
    News and Culture

    On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

    By Teresa Rose Carmody  June 19, 2019
    Literary Nemeses

    What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

    By Jen Corrigan  June 18, 2019
    Adaptations

    How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

    By Rebecca Renner  June 18, 2019
    Writing Life

    What Anne Sexton Taught Me About… Self-Promotion

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 18, 2019
    Kafka

    “Franz Kafka” the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

    By Renée Reizman  June 18, 2019
    Nigerian Literature

    How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

    By Nnamdi Ehirim  June 18, 2019
    Summer reading

    20 “Perfect Summer Books” for This and Every Year

    By Emily Temple  June 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

    By Hannah Seidlitz  June 17, 2019
    Difficult Defenses

    In Defense of My Family Business: The Soap Opera Storyteller

    By Nicholas Mancusi  June 17, 2019
    Criticism

    On Movies and How to Write About Them

    By Literary Hub  June 17, 2019
    Bloomsday

    Fighting to Save the Real-Life Pharmacy from James Joyce’s Ulysses

    By Ally Findley  June 14, 2019
    Parenting and Writing

    Writing During Naptime, a Parent’s Practice

    By Katie Gutierrez  June 14, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
    Literary History

    What the 39,933 Items on Peter Matthiessen’s Computer Mean for the Art of Biography

    By Lance Richardson  June 13, 2019
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