• Craft and Criticism

    How to...

    On the Importance of Getting the Science Right in Your Novel

    By Andrea Rothman  April 26, 2019
    Queer Lit

    James Baldwin in Paris: On the Virtuosic Shame of Giovanni’s Room

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 25, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The Real Life Castaway Behind Robinson Crusoe Actually Asked to Be Dropped Off

    By Delaney Nolan  April 25, 2019
    Profile

    Moving Back to West Virginia, in Fiction and in Life

    By Zachary Oren Smith  April 24, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    What I Learned from Keeping a List
    of Every Book I Read

    By Pamela Nadell  April 24, 2019
    Features

    Scenes From a Marriage:
    Reading About My Great-Grandparents, Scott and Zelda

    By Blake Hazard  April 24, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    The Ongoing Obsession with Shakespeare’s True Identity

    By Stuart Kells  April 23, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    On Editing Oliver Sacks After
    He Was Gone

    By Bill Hayes  April 23, 2019
    Shakespeare

    Was Shakespeare Agnostic About
    the Afterlife?

    By John S. Garrison  April 23, 2019
    Writing

    The Failures of a Wunderkind:
    On Rejection and Persistence

    By Michael Croley  April 23, 2019
    Anniversaries

    Amy Tan Reflects on 30 Years Since
    The Joy Luck Club

    By Amy Tan  April 23, 2019
    News and Culture

    Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2019
    Archives

    Going Deep Into the
    J.P. Donleavy Archives

    By Bill Dunn  April 23, 2019
    Deep Reads

    From Northland to Underland, What We Risk Losing

    By Andrew Ervin  April 22, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    A Tribute to Beat Writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins

    By Laura Henriksen  April 22, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Books to Help You Think
    Like a Visual Artist

    By Myla Goldberg  April 19, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Simon Critchley on Tragedy: Colluding in Our Calamity

    By Simon Critchley  April 18, 2019
    How to Write

    Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
    and Tobias Wolff

    By Jane Alison  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Writing Fiction About Fact: Using Historical Figures As Characters

    By Steven Rowley  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Revising My Novel Unearthed
    a #MeToo Story

    By Rachel Cline  April 18, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Historical Blurring and the Question of ‘What If’

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2019
    Profile

    Susan Choi is Done With Fairy Tales

    By Hamilton Cain  April 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    An Argument for Slowing the
    F*ck Down with War and Peace

    By Natalie Adler  April 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Harold Bloom on Wallace Stevens, Young Love, and Old Age

    By Harold Bloom  April 17, 2019
    On Translation

    Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar’s Literary Life

    By Allison M. Charette  April 17, 2019
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