• Craft and Criticism

    Conversations

    What’s It Like to Be Married And Write a Book Together?

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  April 7, 2017
    Conversations

    Investigating the Brilliance of the Late João Gilberto Noll

    By Literary Hub  April 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Longest Winter: Or Why It Took Me 15 Years to Finish My Novel

    By Max Winter  April 5, 2017
    Conversations

    Historian Timothy Snyder on Russia, Trump, and Terrorism

    By Christopher Lydon  April 5, 2017
    Essay

    How Many Shakespeares Were There?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 5, 2017
    Q and A

    Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

    By Literary Hub  April 5, 2017
    Conversations

    Ana Marie Cox on Our New National Nightmare

    By Literary Hub  April 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    Don’t Be a Dick: Colum McCann’s Advice to Young Writers

    By Colum McCann  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Is Your Name Your Destiny?

    By Catherine Buni  April 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn’t Love Me Back

    By Stephanie Powell Watts  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

    By John Sherman  March 31, 2017
    Criticism

    What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

    By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino  March 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

    By Tobias Carroll  March 30, 2017
    Audiobook

    The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

    By John Freeman Gill  March 29, 2017
    Translation

    The Making of a Tireless Literary Translator

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  March 29, 2017
    Craft

    Julio Cortázar Teaches a Class on His Own Short Story

    By Julio Cortazar  March 28, 2017
    Profile

    Julia Dahl: Crime Fiction Among the Pious

    By Lisa Levy  March 28, 2017
    History

    How to Write About a Massacre

    By Harriet Scott Chessman  March 28, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Life Advice From Adrienne Rich

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2017
    Q and A

    Greg Iles: In Praise of Larry McMurtry (Postmodernists, Not So Much)

    By Literary Hub  March 27, 2017
    Film

    In Which Jonathan Lethem and Heidi Julavits Talk About Movies

    By Emily Temple  March 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Instead of Writing, I Watched Trains

    By Owen Laukkanen  March 24, 2017
    Essay

    Do Dogs Have Souls? And Other Questions from Jim Harrison

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    Op-Ed

    If Fiction Changes the World, It’s Going to Be YA

    By Emily Temple  March 23, 2017
    Events

    Reading Across America: How to Host a Literary Event

    By Jen Michalski  March 23, 2017
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