• Craft and Criticism

    Profile

    A Novel for Our Times

    By Francisco Goldman  March 1, 2019
    Advice

    5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Cleveland

    By Grace Roberson  March 1, 2019
    Conversations

    On Writing Science Fiction and New Narratives for Women of Color

    By Literary Hub  March 1, 2019
    Essay

    What If I Wasn’t Meant to Be a Novelist?

    By Aaron Shulman  February 28, 2019
    Feature

    8 Gilded Age Stories That Predicted the Future

    By Stephanie Gorton  February 28, 2019
    Essay

    On the Overdue Evolution of Immigrant Narratives

    By Irina Reyn  February 28, 2019
    Grief

    Sarah McColl on Approaching Grief and Searching for Clarity

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 28, 2019
    Essay

    Now is the Time for Equity Journalism

    By Melissa Chadburn  February 27, 2019
    So What Is the Truth?

    Is It Necessary To Be A Vampire When You’re Making Art?

    By Reading Women  February 27, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Geoff Dyer Goes Deep on WWII Classic Where Eagles Dare

    By Geoff Dyer  February 26, 2019
    Conversations

    On the Politics and Pressures of Chronicling a 50-Year-Old Murder

    By Sarah Weinman  February 26, 2019
    Literary History

    If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

    By Liesl Schillinger  February 26, 2019
    Essay

    What Scott McCloud Taught Us About Internet Storytelling

    By Sarah Rosenthal  February 25, 2019
    Essay

    The Black Women Who Wrote America’s Earliest Autofiction

    By Maryam Kazeem  February 25, 2019
    Conversations

    Evan Ratliff on Finding the Right Story

    By But That's Another Story  February 25, 2019
    Essay

    The Epidemic of Thinking There’s Only One African Writer

    By Yewande Omotoso  February 22, 2019
    Deep Dive

    If Beale Street Could Talk: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

    By Ben Rybeck  February 22, 2019
    Excerpts

    How Louisa May Alcott Landed on the Front Lines of the Civil War

    By Samantha Seiple  February 22, 2019
    Climate Change

    An Actually Realistic Guide to Sustainability

    By New Books Network  February 22, 2019
    Criticism

    On David Foster Wallace’s Obsession With Failure

    By Ryan Lackey  February 21, 2019
    Essay

    How to Free Yourself From the ‘Walking Essay’

    By Lucy Schiller  February 21, 2019
    Film

    Brit Bennett and Emily Halpern on Screenwriting’s Tips for Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 21, 2019
    Space!

    Charlie Jane Anders on World-Building and the Perils of Allegory

    By So Many Damn Books  February 21, 2019
    Q and A Conversations

    Valeria Luiselli on Freedom, First Love, and Mayan Ruins

    By Valeria Luiselli  February 20, 2019
    Close Reading

    Eula Biss: “A book I can’t defend, a book I can’t renounce.”

    By Eula Biss  February 20, 2019
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