• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

    By James Tate Hill  January 11, 2018
    Conversations

    Neel Mukherjee: Fiction Must Be a Quarrel with the Times

    By Hanya Yanagihara  January 11, 2018
    Essay

    Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 10, 2018
    Feature

    Jamie Quatro: How Should a Christian Writer Be?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 9, 2018
    Criticism

    Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

    By Emily Temple  January 9, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

    By Ann Hulbert  January 9, 2018
    Essay

    The Political Power of Translation

    By Chenxin Jiang  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    If It Wasn’t For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn’t Be a Novelist

    By Jillian Medoff  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

    By Christopher J. Yates  January 5, 2018
    Conversations

    Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan on Fake News, Truth-Telling, and What Fiction Can Do

    By Literary Hub  January 4, 2018
    Feature

    Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

    By Danielle Jackson  January 3, 2018
    Essay

    J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

    By J.M. Coetzee  January 2, 2018
    Essay

    Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

    By Maud Casey  January 2, 2018
    Literary Criticism

    Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

    By Ali Smith  December 28, 2017
    Conversations

    Yan Lianke and Xiaolu Guo on Writing Through Rural Poverty in China

    By Literary Hub  December 27, 2017
    Conversations

    Safiya Sinclair on Waiting for the Storm on America’s Margins

    By Peter Mishler  December 22, 2017
    Conversations

    Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan on Trump, the Internet, and Our Dark Future

    By Literary Hub  December 21, 2017
    Essay

    Is Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas a Work of Genius?

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  December 20, 2017
    Essay

    Why I Gave Homer a Contemporary Voice in the Odyssey

    By Emily Wilson  December 19, 2017
    Poets

    How Fetishizing ‘Craft’ Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem

    By Michael Bazzett  December 19, 2017
    Essay

    The Privilege of Plotlessness

    By Lynn Steger Strong  December 18, 2017
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Making the Jump from Stage to Page

    By Kia Corthron  December 15, 2017
    Poets

    Honoring the Weird Fire: Poets Chen Chen and Craig Santos Perez In Conversation

    By Literary Hub  December 15, 2017
    Advice

    20 Questions (And Answers) for the Debut Writer

    By Literary Hub  December 14, 2017
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