• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    The Night I Slept in James Thurber’s Bed

    By Annabelle Gurwitch  May 1, 2018
    Advice

    7 Methods for Writing Your First Draft

    By Ross Raisin  May 1, 2018
    Conversations

    On Envy, Unsatisfied Desire, and Not Waiting for Permission

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2018
    Essay

    On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 30, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Our Imaginations Need to Dwell Where the Wild Things Are

    By Liam Heneghan  April 30, 2018
    Conversations

    Celeste Ng: Bookstores Are the Center of the Literary Ecosystem

    By Literary Hub  April 27, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Last Days of James Baldwin’s House in the South of France

    By Magdalena J. Zaborowska  April 27, 2018
    Essay

    Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

    By Tobias Carroll  April 26, 2018
    In the classroom

    When, Exactly, Do Children Start Thinking They Hate Poetry?

    By Chris Harris  April 26, 2018
    Essay

    Reading Rilke in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes

    By Henri Cole  April 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

    By Damon Young  April 26, 2018
    Close Reading

    What If Readers Are Learning the Wrong Lessons From My Writing?

    By Nafissa Thompson-Spires  April 25, 2018
    Essay

    Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale

    By Margaret Atwood  April 25, 2018
    Essay

    When the Wildfires of Your Novel Come to Life Around You

    By Julia Dixon Evans  April 25, 2018
    Conversations

    Poet Michael Wasson: From Kurt Cobain to Village Life in Japan

    By Peter Mishler  April 24, 2018
    Essay

    When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

    By Colette Shade  April 24, 2018
    Conversations

    Curtis Sittenfeld Has Been Reading Alice Munro for 15 Years

    By Literary Hub  April 24, 2018
    Criticism

    Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  April 23, 2018
    Essay

    Years After Barry Hannah’s Death, He Haunts Us Still

    By Michael Bible  April 23, 2018
    Essay

    Sometimes the Best Way to Read is to Mark Up the Book

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 23, 2018
    Conversations

    The Challenge of Writing Across Time and Vernacular

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2018
    Profile

    Richard Powers: There Are Things More Interesting Than People

    By Kevin Berger  April 23, 2018
    Archives

    The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

    By Emily Temple  April 20, 2018
    Essay

    It’s Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

    By Tom McAllister  April 20, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Silent Spring is More than a Scientific Landmark: It’s Literature

    By Rebecca Renner  April 20, 2018
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