• Craft and Criticism

    History

    Returning Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Skies

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  September 26, 2017
    Advice

    20 Pieces of Writing Advice from William Faulkner

    By Emily Temple  September 25, 2017
    Conversations

    Cheryl Strayed is Fed Up with Memoir-Bashing

    By Katherine Standefer  September 22, 2017
    Criticism

    Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

    By Arvind Dilawar  September 22, 2017
    Essay

    What Quilting and Embroidery Can Teach us About Narrative Form

    By Sarah Minor  September 22, 2017
    Happy Birthday

    12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2017
    Profile

    Talking Disco and the Disaster Imaginary with Andrew Durbin

    By Thora Siemsen  September 21, 2017
    Conversations

    Opioids and Refugees: Why Not Poetry?

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

    By Devin Murphy  September 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    More than the Beauty or the Heroine

    By Zan Romanoff  September 20, 2017
    Spotlight

    The Future of New Writing: Introducing Freeman’s, Issue Four

    By John Freeman  September 19, 2017
    Conversations

    Franklin Foer on the Existential Threat of Big Tech

    By Andrew Keen  September 19, 2017
    Criticism

    Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals

    By Carina del Valle Schorske  September 19, 2017
    Conversations

    Finding Truth in Ballet and the Movies

    By Brigid Hughes  September 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Imagining the Future of Nigeria: Accessing Africa Through Sci-Fi

    By Deji Bryce Olukotun  September 18, 2017
    Essay

    Writing My Trauma With a Little Help From a Jason Bourne Car Chase

    By Winnie M. Li  September 18, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Evil Enters From the Left: On Pantomime and the Classic Stage

    By Elly Griffiths  September 18, 2017
    Advice

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read

    By Emily Temple  September 15, 2017
    Roundtable

    Writing Between Countries and Across Borders: A Conversation

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2017
    The Art of Editing

    7 Writers Who Were Also Editors (And the Books They Edited)

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2017
    Archives

    When Roald Dahl’s Editor Decided He Was Too Much of a Prick To Publish

    By Emily Temple  September 13, 2017
    Q and A

    Eileen Myles, the Books in My Life: From Little Women to Angela Carter

    By Eileen Myles  September 13, 2017
    Poets

    Kaveh Akbar: How I Found Poetry in Childhood Prayer

    By Kaveh Akbar  September 12, 2017
    Conversations

    “I’ve Always Been Political”: Celeste Ng and Nicole Chung in Conversation

    By Nicole Chung  September 12, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Ways in Which a Novel Can Fail Like a Marriage

    By Josh Weil  September 12, 2017
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