• Craft and Criticism

    Criticism

    Beyond “Lyric Shame”: Ben Lerner on Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson

    By Ben Lerner  November 29, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Tacoma

    By Renee Simms  November 29, 2017
    Essay

    The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

    By Aisha Sabatini Sloan  November 28, 2017
    Essay

    Anne of Green Gables: Patron Saint of Girls Who Ask Too Many Questions

    By J. Courtney Sullivan  November 28, 2017
    Essay

    The Promise and Disappointment of Virtual Reality

    By Mark Riboldi  November 28, 2017
    Essay

    The Only Dissident Novel For Sale in Turkey

    By Maureen Freely  November 28, 2017
    Conversations

    Meeting the Perfect Translator for My Book

    By Michael Frank  November 27, 2017
    Conversations

    Poet Jenny Johnson on Writing Her Own Escape Routes

    By Peter Mishler  November 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?

    By Maile Meloy  November 27, 2017
    Criticism

    Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot’s Most Underrated Heroine

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  November 22, 2017
    Essay

    Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

    By Sven Birkerts  November 22, 2017
    Conversations

    Of Working Women in Madrid, and the Lives of Artists

    By Literary Hub  November 22, 2017
    Feature

    How 11 Writers Organize Their Personal Libraries

    By Emily Temple  November 21, 2017
    Feature

    Adrian McKinty Tries to Get Some Writing Done in Kafka’s Old Office

    By Adrian McKinty  November 21, 2017
    Design

    See the Detailed Diagrams Kathy Acker Drew of Her Dreams

    By Literary Hub  November 20, 2017
    Essay

    Call Me By Your Name is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

    By Emily Temple  November 20, 2017
    Essay

    We Still Need the Morality Lessons of Philip Pullman

    By Eric Thurm  November 20, 2017
    Feature

    Garth Risk Hallberg on Updating His Debut Novella—10 Years Later

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  November 17, 2017
    Essay

    How a German Writer Made Peace with the Imprecision of English

    By Emanuel Bergmann  November 17, 2017
    Feature

    Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

    By Abel Debritto  November 17, 2017
    Conversations

    Kim Stanley Robinson: We Have Come to a Bad Moment, and We Must Change

    By Christopher Lydon  November 17, 2017
    Translation

    Languages Cannot Be Assimilated or Colonized, for They Contain Multitudes

    By Lauren Elkin  November 17, 2017
    Feature

    Reclaiming a Beloved Writer from the Brink of Disappearance

    By Beth Kephart  November 16, 2017
    Excerpts

    What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

    By Kristian Williams  November 16, 2017
    Poets

    Lynn Melnick: “I Believe Words Possess a Magic Power to Make Change”

    By Danielle Pafunda  November 16, 2017
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