• Craft and Criticism

    In Memoriam

    William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life’s Smaller Moments

    By Sonny Brewer  September 4, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On the Children’s Book So Bad, So Inauthentic… It Was Good?

    By NewberyTart   September 4, 2020
    Bookable

    Gary Shteyngart and Paul LaFarge: There’s a Tornado Coming… Let’s Talk Craft

    By Bookable   September 4, 2020
    Voting

    What Are We Going to Do About Voter Suppression?

    By Literary Hub  September 3, 2020
    On Race

    Joshua Bennett on the Fullness of Black Life in a Time of Siege

    By Jesse McCarthy  September 3, 2020
    Great Authors

    “Will I Come to a Miserable End?” Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

    By Jenny Erpenbeck  September 3, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Natasha Trethewey on Surviving the White Mind of the South

    By The Maris Review  September 3, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Megha Majumdar on Why Any of Us Write

    By So Many Damn Books  September 3, 2020
    On Translation

    On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

    By Carolina De Robertis  September 3, 2020
    Reading Lists

    A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

    By Literary Hub  September 3, 2020
    On Translation

    Inside the Intricate Translation Process for a Murakami Novel

    By David Karashima  September 2, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Valerie June Needs Her Songs—and Her Life—to Have Soul

    By Literary Hub  September 2, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of In Cold Blood

    By Emily Temple  September 2, 2020
    WMFA

    Alexander Chee on How a Single Story Can Contain Many Rooms

    By WMFA   September 2, 2020
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Colm Toíbín: ‘How do you write a novel? You write a novel. Why are you not doing it now?
    Go home.’

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 2, 2020
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Defiance in Writing

    By Literary Hub  September 2, 2020
    Otherppl

    David Goodwillie on the Private Rollercoaster That is
    the Writer’s Life

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 2, 2020
    Reading Women

    Reading Women Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

    By Reading Women  September 2, 2020
    On Craft

    If Only Doctors Could Treat Historical Guilt

    By Katharina Volckmer  September 2, 2020
    The Hub

    Jonathan Franzen’s best piece of advice for young writers will probably surprise you.

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2020
    5 Questions

    Hari Kunzru is Never Going to Read To Kill a Mockingbird

    By Literary Hub  September 1, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Writing in Crisis: A Conversation Between Beirut and New York

    By Lina Mounzer and Mirene Arsanios  September 1, 2020
    Artists

    A Lineage of Artists: Polly Crosby on Her Famous Illustrator Uncles

    By Polly Crosby  September 1, 2020
    Literary Disco

    When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

    By Literary Disco  September 1, 2020
    On Race

    Angela Davis on International Solidarity and the Future of Black Radicalism

    By Verso Books   August 31, 2020
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