• Craft and Criticism

    Conversations

    Jonathan Lethem on Gambling, The American Left, and Formative Grief

    By Dan Sheehan  October 19, 2016
    Conversations

    Tessa Hadley, C. E. Morgan, and Jerry Pinto on the Future of Libraries

    By Literary Hub  October 19, 2016
    Criticism

    How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient

    By Tobias Carroll  October 18, 2016
    Conversations

    Joanna Kavenna, Champion of the Contemporary Philosophical Novel

    By Nicole Im  October 18, 2016
    Criticism

    How Patricia Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley Rises from Genre to Myth

    By James Lasdun  October 18, 2016
    Conversations

    Eileen Myles: “Locker Room Banter” is Just Another Name for Patriarchy

    By Christopher Lydon  October 17, 2016
    Essay

    Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

    By Derek Palacio  October 17, 2016
    Design

    In Praise of the Illustrated Book

    By Buzz Poole  October 17, 2016
    Essay

    There’s Still No Word for ‘Memoir’ in German Publishing

    By Tara Bray Smith  October 17, 2016
    Criticism

    How to Keep Out Death: On the Literature of Crowds

    By Dustin Illingworth  October 17, 2016
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Her Bookshop

    By Interview with a Bookstore  October 17, 2016
    Conversations

    On Queerness, Empathy, and Afro-Modernity

    By Literary Hub  October 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    On Bob Dylan’s Literary Influences

    By Mark Polizzotti  October 14, 2016
    Conversations

    Brit Bennett on Place, Isolation, and What it Means to Be Good

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 14, 2016
    Feature

    The Banality of Donald Trump

    By Rafia Zakaria  October 14, 2016
    Essay

    When Virality Goes Wrong

    By Chris Holm  October 14, 2016
    Biography

    So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

    By Lisa Levy  October 13, 2016
    Archives

    Jonathan Lethem on the Lost Conversations of Ross Macdonald

    By Kevin Avery  October 13, 2016
    Feature

    Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

    By Bridget Read  October 13, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview With a Gatekeeper: Algonquin’s Elisabeth Scharlatt

    By Kerri Arsenault  October 13, 2016
    Politics

    It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly’s Black Girl Poetry

    By Nikky Finney  October 13, 2016
    Essay

    Dispatches From a Writer’s Retreat on a Playground for the Super Rich

    By Ying-Ju Lai  October 13, 2016
    Conversations

    Adonis on The Complete Failure of the Arab Spring

    By Literary Hub  October 12, 2016
    Conversations

    Wu-Tang’s RZA on the Mysterious Land of Shaolin: Staten Island

    By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro  October 12, 2016
    Essay

    The Literature of Creepy Clowns

    By Tobias Carroll  October 7, 2016
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