• Craft and Criticism

    Did you know?

    Jane Austen’s Emma Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

    By Juliette Wells  October 11, 2017
    Conversations

    Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code

    By Morgan Meis  October 11, 2017
    Writer Diary

    Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

    By Emily Temple  October 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

    By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney  October 11, 2017
    Did you know?

    137 Writers and the Words They’re Best Known For

    By Kaveh Akbar  October 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

    By Ottessa Moshfegh  October 10, 2017
    Profile

    Naomi Alderman Taps Into the Deeper Powers of Women

    By Daneet Steffens  October 10, 2017
    Conversations

    Carmen Maria Machado on Campfire Stories and Queer Teen Touchstones

    By Claire Luchette  October 6, 2017
    Profile

    Kazuo Ishiguro on Song Lyrics, Scones, and the Life He Could Have Had

    By John Freeman  October 5, 2017
    Profile

    Jesmyn Ward on the Hauntings of History

    By Michele Filgate  October 5, 2017
    Advice

    Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Lecture: Why I Write

    By Literary Hub  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

    By Meghan O'Rourke  October 5, 2017
    Criticism

    Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

    By John Biguenet  October 5, 2017
    Criticism

    If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It’s Not Universal

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 5, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Pure Pleasure of Reading Lolita‘s First 100 Pages

    By Hanya Yanagihara  October 4, 2017
    Essay

    Haruki Murakami on His Favorite Young Novelist: Mieko Kawakami

    By Haruki Murakami  October 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Death Became Big Business in America

    By Caitlin Doughty  October 4, 2017
    Conversations

    A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 4, 2017
    Q and A

    Jeffrey Eugenides on Falling in Love with Reading (with Help from His Mom)

    By Literary Hub  October 4, 2017
    History

    A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

    By Nichole LeFebvre  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    The Prettiest Way to Die

    By Christina Newland  October 3, 2017
    Archives

    Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

    By Bradford Morrow  October 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Soul

    By Alejandro Nava  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

    By Hayley Singer  October 2, 2017
    Conversations

    All Memoir Titles Should Be Fleetwood Mac Songs

    By Emily Gould  October 2, 2017
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