• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    What Do I Risk Losing By Writing Down My Family’s Stories in English?

    By Jamil Jan Kochai  January 7, 2019
    Conversations

    How Do We Write About Evil?

    By Literary Hub  January 4, 2019
    Escape

    Morris Collins on the Temptations of Certainty and the Lives of the Ex-Pats

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 4, 2019
    Essay

    On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties (vs. Your Twenties)

    By Steve Edwards  January 3, 2019
    Essay

    Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 3, 2019
    Technology

    Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

    By Samantha Edmonds  January 3, 2019
    Essay

    Can Parenthood Be the Artist’s Best Tool?

    By Adam Nemett  January 2, 2019
    Essay

    Reading Across America: A Poetry Reading on an NYC Subway Car?

    By KC Trommer  January 2, 2019
    Trauma

    Brittany Ackerman Talks Anxiety, Addiction, and the Shiftiness of Memory

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 28, 2018
    Comic Briefs

    Literary Disco Talks Graphic Novels, Men in Underpants, and Bruce Springsteen

    By Literary Disco  December 28, 2018
    Kid Lit

    Nicholas Boggs on the Significance of James Baldwin’s Children’s Book

    By New Books Network  December 21, 2018
    Close Reading

    On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  December 20, 2018
    Conversations

    How Joan Didion’s The White Album Made It to the Stage

    By Monika Zaleska  December 20, 2018
    Essay

    The Night Hunter S. Thompson Might Have Given Me Writing Advice

    By Heather Rose  December 19, 2018
    Doubled Edged Swords

    Katya Apekina on Praise, Capitalism, and Avoiding Plot

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Happened to the Original Version of The Waste Land?

    By Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue  December 19, 2018
    Conversations

    Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

    By Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja  December 19, 2018
    Conversations

    Jodie Foster on Her All-Time Favorite Book

    By But That's Another Story  December 18, 2018
    Essay

    How to Grieve For Your Friend and Mentor

    By Amy Jo Burns  December 18, 2018
    Criticism

    Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

    By Devoney Looser  December 17, 2018
    Dickens

    Samantha Silva on Retelling the Tale of a Charles Dickens Christmas

    By New Books Network  December 14, 2018
    Deep Dive

    On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 13, 2018
    Excerpts

    Oliverio Girondo’s Absurd Cosmopolitan World

    By Harris Feinsod and Rachel Galvin  December 13, 2018
    Criticism

    Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

    By James Schamus  December 12, 2018
    Essay

    In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

    By Joe Moran  December 12, 2018
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