• Craft and Criticism

    Advice

    The Pessimist’s Guide to Literary Wedding Toasts

    By Emily Temple  June 28, 2017
    Craft

    Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?

    By Nicole B. Wallack  June 28, 2017
    Close Reading

    Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading “The Lottery” in 2017

    By Emily Temple  June 27, 2017
    Craft

    If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second

    By Tom Bouman  June 27, 2017
    Q and A

    Alexandra Fuller: Fairy Tales on the Frontlines (and Other Books)

    By Alexandra Fuller  June 27, 2017
    Close Reading

    Was Jane Eyre Written as a Secret Love Letter?

    By John Pfordresher  June 26, 2017
    Conversations

    Naomi Klein: People Are Ready to Vote For Something, Not Just Against It

    By Christopher Lydon  June 26, 2017
    Craft

    When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist

    By Karen Rinaldi  June 23, 2017
    Politics

    Reading Across America: Making Things Political

    By Natalka Burian  June 23, 2017
    Conversations

    Exiled from Manhood: On Queer Writing and the Midwest

    By Cade Mason  June 23, 2017
    Did you know?

    10 Famous Book Hoarders

    By Emily Temple  June 22, 2017
    Q and A

    Victor LaValle: Five Books in My Life

    By Literary Hub  June 22, 2017
    Travel

    A Tourist in My Own Book

    By Rebecca Entel  June 22, 2017
    Close Reading

    On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

    By Brian Dillon  June 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books

    By John J. Healey  June 21, 2017
    Conversations

    Jill Eisenstadt and Darcey Steinke on Writing, Motherhood, and Brooklyn

    By Literary Hub  June 21, 2017
    Criticism

    To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

    By Veronica Esposito  June 20, 2017
    Short story writers

    Shorter, Faster, Better: On the Beauty of Literary Compression

    By Olivia Clare Friedman  June 20, 2017
    Conversations

    David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, ‘The Most Unlikely Leader Ever’

    By Christopher Lydon  June 20, 2017
    Profile

    Stop Calling Paul Beatty an ‘Angry’ Writer

    By Julie Phillips  June 20, 2017
    Conversations

    Minae Mizumura on Serializing Novels, Aging, and the Eternal Internet

    By Benjamin Moser  June 20, 2017
    Conversations

    James Salter’s Last Interview

    By Alexander Slotnick  June 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

    By Matthew Carr  June 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Grief, Joan Didion’s Move From Fiction to Memoir

    By David L. Ulin  June 15, 2017
    Starting out

    False Starts, or This Novel-Writing Shit Isn’t Easy

    By Don Lee  June 15, 2017
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