• Craft and Criticism

    Studio Sessions

    Belletrist Studio Sessions:
    Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

    By Literary Hub  January 28, 2020
    The Robots

    The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

    By Dennis Tang  January 27, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

    By Jonathan Reiber  January 27, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

    By John M. Bowers  January 27, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
    Immigration

    Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

    By Javier Zamora  January 24, 2020
    Consciousness

    How, Exactly, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?

    By Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks  January 24, 2020
    Criticism

    How Does Garth Greenwell Make Such Wonderful Sentences?

    By Christian Kiefer  January 23, 2020
    On Death

    What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

    By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
    Criticism

    Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

    By Phillipa K. Chong  January 23, 2020
    Nigerian Culture

    Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

    By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
    Young Adult

    In Search of Los Angeles Magic: Retracing Weetzie Bat’s Steps with Francesca Lia Block

    By Cynthia Drake  January 22, 2020
    Climate Change

    Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires

    By Jennifer Mills  January 22, 2020
    The History of Reading

    Rediscovering the Lost Power
    of Reading Aloud

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 22, 2020
    Language

    Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing
    in Yiddish

    By Isaac Bashevis Singer  January 22, 2020
    Audiobooks

    In Conversation with Legendary Harry Potter Audiobook Narrator Jim Dale

    By Behind the Mic   January 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

    By Adam Nicolson  January 21, 2020
    Writer's Retreats

    The Yurt at the Edge of the Sea:
    A Writers’ Retreat on the California Coast

    By Emily Cooke  January 21, 2020
    Literary History

    The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

    By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    On Contemporary Minimalism’s Maximal Lies

    By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

    By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    K Chess: Imagining a Radically Different 20th Century That Might Have Been

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    In Conversation

    Talking Poetry and Porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village Bar

    By Brian Gresko  January 16, 2020
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