• Craft and Criticism

    Deep Dive

    Revisiting Jenny Diski’s Debut, Sadomasochistic Novel

    By Daphne Merkin  June 5, 2017
    Craft

    How to Write an Internet Essay to Support Your Novel

    By Gabe Habash  June 5, 2017
    Craft

    My Beautiful Oubliette: The Difficulty of Being a Writer in Prison

    By Dean Faiello  June 5, 2017
    Conversations

    Silence is an Occupation all Its Own

    By Ilana Masad  June 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Reading Robert Pirsig Taught Me About Writing (And Life)

    By Bernadette Murphy  June 5, 2017
    Criticism

    My Fictional Nemesis: Why Thomas Hardy’s Angel Clare is the Worst

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  June 2, 2017
    Advice

    Don’t Make Yourself the Hero of Your Own Story

    By Elena Lappin  June 2, 2017
    Essay

    Separating Truth from Lies in the Face of Atrocity

    By Johanna Skibsrud  June 2, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

    By John Sherman  June 2, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 1, 2017
    Profile

    Sherman Alexie: “I Think We Live in a Constant Funeral”

    By Alden Mudge  June 1, 2017
    Profile

    Imbolo Mbue on Empathy and the Price of the American Dream

    By Kristen Evans  June 1, 2017
    Profile

    At a Sword Fight with a Modern-Day Swashbuckler (in a Harlem Basement)

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 1, 2017
    Criticism

    Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

    By Carol Dyhouse  June 1, 2017
    Conversations

    Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

    By Michele Filgate  May 31, 2017
    Criticism

    Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles’s First Novel

    By Chris Kraus  May 31, 2017
    Close Reading

    I Found My Family in Jesus’ Son

    By James Boice  May 31, 2017
    Criticism

    What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

    By Literary Hub  May 30, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Learning the ABC’s of Grad School Jargon

    By Deb Werrlein  May 30, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Reading Susan Sontag in Paris

    By Lori Brister  May 26, 2017
    Conversations

    Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

    By David Chariandy  May 26, 2017
    Conversations

    All Writing is a Kind of Realism

    By Literary Hub  May 26, 2017
    Craft

    “Poultry?” No, Poetry. On Moving From Verse to Memoir

    By Chris Forhan  May 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

    By Conor Higgins  May 25, 2017
    Advice

    Jamaica Kincaid on How to Live and How to Write

    By Emily Temple  May 25, 2017
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