• Craft and Criticism

    Personal Essay

    Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

    By Victoria Newton Ford  March 23, 2017
    Q and A

    Deborah Crombie: Middle Earth Over Thomas Hardy, Any Day

    By Literary Hub  March 23, 2017
    Conversations

    Airea D. Matthews: Texting with Anne Sexton

    By Peter Mishler  March 22, 2017
    Feature

    How Many Books Will You Read Before You Die?

    By Emily Temple  March 22, 2017
    Craft

    Putting the “I” in Biography

    By John Kaag  March 22, 2017
    Conversations

    Patrick Cottrell: Writing is Not Therapeutic in Any Way

    By Claire Luchette  March 21, 2017
    Profile

    Elif Batuman on Fictionalizing Her Life, and Learning to Fact Check

    By Dylan Foley  March 21, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Literary Voices on the Legendary Brilliance of Robert Silvers

    By Emily Temple  March 21, 2017
    Advice

    The Writing Wisdom of Derek Walcott

    By Emily Temple  March 20, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Derek Walcott: Poet of Twilight, Poet of the Caribbean

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2017
    Conversations

    Pankaj Mishra: We Committed Intellectual Suicide After 9/11

    By Rafia Zakaria  March 20, 2017
    Conversations

    Mohsin Hamid: “Migration is the Starting Point for Everybody”

    By Christopher Lydon  March 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Clarice Lispector’s Children’s Story Taught Me to Read Her Like An Adult

    By Andréa Stella  March 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Toni Morrison is More Hemingway Than Hemingway Himself

    By Ben Blatt  March 17, 2017
    Advice

    Ask the Publicists: What’s the Difference Between Marketing and Publicity?

    By Literary Hub  March 16, 2017
    Q and A

    Is Pedantry the Mother of the Essay?

    By Ken Chen  March 16, 2017
    Conversations

    Kanishk Tharoor on Writing Outside of Western Traditions

    By Peter C. Baker  March 16, 2017
    Politics

    Roxane Gay, Aimee Bender, and More on Assault and Harassment in the Literary World

    By Literary Hub  March 15, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

    By Dion Kagan  March 15, 2017
    Criticism

    When Femininity is Code for Feelings

    By Lynn Steger Strong  March 15, 2017
    Conversations

    Ariel Levy: “Feminism Never Said You Can Have It All”

    By Bethanne Patrick  March 14, 2017
    Craft

    How I Learned to Create an Effective Sherlock Holmes Pastiche

    By Lyndsay Faye  March 13, 2017
    How to...

    Reading Across America: How to Create ‘Live Literary Journals’

    By Wendy C. Ortiz  March 13, 2017
    Conversations

    Margaret Atwood on What It’s Like To Watch Her Own Dystopia Come True

    By Emily Temple  March 10, 2017
    Craft

    On Persistence: The Lessons of a Middle-Aged Debut Novelist

    By Daniel Lowe  March 10, 2017
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