• Craft and Criticism

    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
    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
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