• Craft and Criticism

    Criticism

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses

    By Emily Temple  February 2, 2018
    Criticism

    Ulysses: Good or Bad?

    By Emily Temple  February 2, 2018
    Advice

    A Few Words of Indispensable Advice from Muriel Spark

    By Muriel Spark  February 1, 2018
    Essay

    Let’s Talk About the Fantasy of the Writer’s Lifestyle

    By Rosalie Knecht  January 31, 2018
    Essay

    Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

    By Tim Wirkus  January 31, 2018
    Feature

    Paris’s Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

    By Matt Grant  January 31, 2018
    Essay

    Nonfiction As Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art

    By Dave Madden  January 30, 2018
    Profile

    Jojo Moyes: What is the Thing That Makes Me Happy?

    By Daneet Steffens  January 30, 2018
    Essay

    How Nursing Led Me Back to Writing

    By Emma Glass  January 29, 2018
    Conversations

    Lifting Up Overlooked Authors: On Craft, Identity, and Insecurities

    By Literary Hub  January 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won’t Die

    By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  January 26, 2018
    Conversations

    Interview with a Bookstore: Tulsa’s Magic City Books

    By Interview with a Bookstore  January 25, 2018
    In Memoriam

    My Last Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin

    By John Freeman  January 24, 2018
    Advice

    Ursula K. Le Guin’s Best Life Advice

    By Emily Temple  January 24, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  January 24, 2018
    Feature

    10 Other Literary Writers We’d Love to See with Weekly Columns

    By Emily Temple  January 23, 2018
    Criticism

    Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

    By Philip Metres  January 23, 2018
    Op-Ed

    How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

    By Xhenet Aliu  January 23, 2018
    Criticism

    Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

    By M. C. Mah  January 22, 2018
    Advice

    Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

    By Emily Temple  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

    By Veronica Esposito  January 22, 2018
    Feature

    How to Write a #MeToo Story

    By Alison B. Hart  January 19, 2018
    Essay

    How to Read Caves

    By Susan Harlan  January 19, 2018
    Criticism

    The Literature of Bad Sex

    By Hermione Hoby  January 18, 2018
    Profile

    When Your Feminist Dystopia Becomes a Work of Realism

    By Maddie Crum  January 18, 2018
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