• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Profile

    Nathan Englander on “His Turducken” of a Novel: Spy Thriller, Love Story, Meta-History

    By Dylan Foley  September 12, 2017
    What to Read

    The Classes 25 Famous Writers Teach

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2017
    Q and A

    Nicole Krauss: Reading the Russians, and Other Life Goals

    By Literary Hub  September 11, 2017
    Criticism

    How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

    By Alex Gilvarry  September 11, 2017
    Memoir

    Can the New York Times’ Modern Love Column Change a Writer’s Life?

    By Andrea Jarrell  September 8, 2017
    Art

    The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter

    By Meghan Forbes  September 7, 2017
    Advice

    How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice

    By Helen Sword  September 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    One Decade, Two Writers, Many Actors, and Finally My Book Became a Movie

    By Mark Haskell Smith  September 7, 2017
    Did you know?

    Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

    By Michael Lynn Crews  September 6, 2017
    Q and A

    Salman Rushdie’s First Love Was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    By Literary Hub  September 5, 2017
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