• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    The Lives of the Poets Aren’t All That Cinematic

    By Lucy Scholes  April 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  April 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Louise Erdrich: Among the Living and the Dead in the Turtle Mountains

    By Louise Erdrich  April 12, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Thomas McGuane Remembers His Friend, Jim Harrison

    By Thomas McGuane  April 12, 2017
    Advice

    Kurt Vonnegut’s Greatest Writing Advice

    By Emily Temple  April 11, 2017
    Conversations

    Durga Chew-Bose: “Writing Affords Me a Space to Have Contradictions”

    By Vrinda Jagota  April 11, 2017
    Op-Ed

    In Defense of Worldbuilding

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2017
    Conversations

    Sara Ahmed: “Once We Find Each Other, So Much Else Becomes Possible”

    By Adam Fitzgerald  April 10, 2017
    Poets

    10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

    By Edward Hirsch  April 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

    By Vincent Scarpa  April 7, 2017
    Events

    Reading Across America: A Scene Grows in Queens

    By Catherine LaSota  April 7, 2017
    Conversations

    You’re Either Born an Artist Or You’re Not

    By Emily Temple  April 7, 2017
    Conversations

    What’s It Like to Be Married And Write a Book Together?

    By Douglas R. Dechow and Anna Leahy  April 7, 2017
    Conversations

    Investigating the Brilliance of the Late João Gilberto Noll

    By Literary Hub  April 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Longest Winter: Or Why It Took Me 15 Years to Finish My Novel

    By Max Winter  April 5, 2017
    Conversations

    Historian Timothy Snyder on Russia, Trump, and Terrorism

    By Christopher Lydon  April 5, 2017
    Essay

    How Many Shakespeares Were There?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 5, 2017
    Q and A

    Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden

    By Literary Hub  April 5, 2017
    Conversations

    Ana Marie Cox on Our New National Nightmare

    By Literary Hub  April 4, 2017
    Excerpts

    Don’t Be a Dick: Colum McCann’s Advice to Young Writers

    By Colum McCann  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Is Your Name Your Destiny?

    By Catherine Buni  April 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn’t Love Me Back

    By Stephanie Powell Watts  April 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Philosophical Implications of Shelving Books

    By John Sherman  March 31, 2017
    Criticism

    What Does it Mean to Set Your Novel at Harvard?

    By Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino  March 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We Are All Detectives Now: When Literary Plots Get Mysterious

    By Tobias Carroll  March 30, 2017
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