Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

David Laskin on an Unyielding Literary Paradox

By David Laskin | March 17, 2021

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Looking Back at the "Wild and Elusive" Poet

By Vivian Gornick | March 17, 2021

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Lisa Cron on What We Really Want From a Story

By Lisa Cron | March 17, 2021

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | March 17, 2021

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

By Robert Alter | March 17, 2021

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | March 17, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Yamen Manai on Waiting for the Perfect Allegory

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 17, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

By Carlin Romano | March 17, 2021

Imbolo Mbue on the Post-Colonial Greed of the
Oil Industry

By Jane Ciabattari | March 16, 2021

Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

Patricia Dwyer Rereads “In the Village” and “In the Waiting Room”

By Patricia M. Dwyer | March 16, 2021

How Would the Publishing World Respond to <em>Lolita</em> Today?

How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?

Jenny Minton Quigley on the Novel Her Father Published

By Jenny Minton Quigley | March 16, 2021

How <em>The End of Vandalism</em> Treats Small-Town America

How The End of Vandalism Treats Small-Town America

Adalena Kavanagh in Conversation with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols on Lit Century

By Lit Century | March 16, 2021

On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

Layla AlAmmar Considers Literature That Seeks to Represent the Unrepresentable

By Layla AlAmmar | March 16, 2021

Why We're Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

Why We're Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

This Week from the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | March 16, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

When Don Lee Sent a Longshot Email to Will Johnson

By Don Lee | March 15, 2021

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