Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

A. J. Gnuse on Our Misplaced Fear of the Gothic

By A. J. Gnuse | May 14, 2021

Barry Jenkins’ <em>Underground Railroad</em> is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

You Will Not Be Able to Look Away

By Emily Temple | May 14, 2021

In Praise of the Singular “They”<br> in Literary Translation

In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler on Maintaining the Aesthetic
Character of a Text

By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | May 14, 2021

Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

The Author of Everybody Discusses Power and Freedom

By Olivia Laing | May 14, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

On Starting Conversations with Readers and Emerging Writers

By Corinne Segal | May 14, 2021

Bonnie MacBird on Expanding the Canon of Sherlock and Watson

Bonnie MacBird on Expanding the Canon of Sherlock and Watson

In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | May 14, 2021

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Cambria Gordon on the Lost Art of Penmanship

By The Literary Life | May 14, 2021

Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

By Joshua Raff | May 13, 2021

When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

By Rachel Eisendrath | May 13, 2021

Tayari Jones on <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>, Nearly Forty Years Later

Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

Reconsidering a Watershed Moment
of Black Storytelling

By Tayari Jones | May 13, 2021

Elissa Washuta on Composing the Three-Act Structure of Her Essay Collection

Elissa Washuta on Composing the Three-Act Structure of Her Essay Collection

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | May 13, 2021

A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

“She had a profound and primal need for poetry, not only as a way to cope, but as a way of forming herself.”

By Nandana Dev Sen | May 13, 2021

Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

Featuring Jo Ann Beard, Katherine Angel, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Jeannine Ouellette

By Literary Hub | May 13, 2021

Nate Marshall on Robert Townsend... Greatest American Filmmaker?

Nate Marshall on Robert Townsend... Greatest American Filmmaker?

In Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith
on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | May 13, 2021

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on Starting All Over Again... And Again

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on Starting All Over Again... And Again

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 13, 2021

John Freeman: Toward a Practice of Collaboration

John Freeman: Toward a Practice of Collaboration

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | May 13, 2021

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