When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

Kim Echlin on Telling Stories of the Unthinkable

By Kim Echlin | March 1, 2021

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Making Choices in a Writing Career

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Making Choices in a Writing Career

Danielle Evans, Eula Biss, Sejal Shah, and Christa Parravani

By Literary Hub | March 1, 2021

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

Simon Leser on the Curious Case of Joseph Andras

By Simon Leser | February 26, 2021

The Best Nightmarish Fiction: <br>A Reading List

The Best Nightmarish Fiction:
A Reading List

Angela Buck Recommends Lydia Davis, Shirley Jackson, and More

By Angela Buck | February 26, 2021

Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body

Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | February 26, 2021

A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

Catherine Rottenberg on the Storied Life and Overdue Revival of Anzia Yezierska

By Catherine Rottenberg | February 26, 2021

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The (Semi-Hidden) History of Queer Pregnancy in Literature

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore

By Marion Winik | February 26, 2021

Something Old, Something New: Arranged Marriage In a Time-Traveling Future

By New Books Network | February 26, 2021

The Dark World of <br>Rapture Fiction

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William J. Bernstein on a Troubled Evangelical Genre

By William J. Bernstein | February 25, 2021

Joy Harjo on the Poetic Lyricism and Subversive Native Storytelling of James Welch

Joy Harjo on the Poetic Lyricism and Subversive Native Storytelling of James Welch

In Praise of the 1974 Novel Winter in the Blood

By Joy Harjo | February 25, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Imperial Liquor</em> by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Stephanie Burt on One of the Finalists for Poetry

By Stephanie Burt | February 25, 2021

Patricia Lockwood: ‘I Like to Give People a Very Vertiginous Whiplash’

Patricia Lockwood: ‘I Like to Give People a Very Vertiginous Whiplash’

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | February 25, 2021

I think about this tiny detail from <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> all the time.

I think about this tiny detail from The Talented Mr. Ripley all the time.

By Emily Temple | February 24, 2021

Beatifying Patricia Lockwood: “I Worry That She Hasn’t Had Enough Fun.”

Beatifying Patricia Lockwood: “I Worry That She Hasn’t Had Enough Fun.”

Mary Gordon Tries to Understand Literary Hagiography

By Mary Gordon | February 24, 2021

How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

Winner Gets a Prize*

By Emily Temple | February 24, 2021

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