Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

“She seems to be expressing a solitariness that is unusual, anti-romantic.”

By Elizabeth Hardwick | May 23, 2022

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas | May 23, 2022

Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

“Life really isn’t stranger than fiction, but you have to keep reading, and rereading, to know that.”

By Xu Xi | May 23, 2022

In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

Natalie Jenner Breaks Down an Alluring Authorial Move

By Natalie Jenner | May 23, 2022

Jeffrey Yang on the Parallels Between Wood Carving and Poetry

Jeffrey Yang on the Parallels Between Wood Carving and Poetry

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 23, 2022

My Queer Life Is Not Inappropriate, and Neither Are the Books That Reflect It

My Queer Life Is Not Inappropriate, and Neither Are the Books That Reflect It

Nicole Melleby on Writing Books that Help Queer Kids and the Kids of Queer Parents Feel Seen

By Nicole Melleby | May 23, 2022

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Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

By Dennard Dayle | May 23, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing

By Jimin Han | May 23, 2022

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

By History of Literature | May 23, 2022

Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us

Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us

Dahr Jamail Talks to Diaz About Building a Lexicon

By Dahr Jamail | May 20, 2022

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Considers X as a Symbol of Prohibition and Expansion

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | May 20, 2022

Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | May 20, 2022

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

“No one wants to feel the writer trying too hard.”

By Jonathan Lee | May 20, 2022

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

Mesha Maren in Conversation with Fernando Flores

By Literary Hub | May 20, 2022

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles by Jhumpa Lahiri, Emma Straub, Benjamin Myers, Maggie Shipstead, and more

By Book Marks | May 20, 2022

Octavia Butler’s <em> Xenogenesis</em> and the Erotics of Power

Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis and the Erotics of Power

This Week on the Queers at the End of the World Podcast

By Queers at the End of the World | May 20, 2022

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