A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

A Toy, a Tool, a Piece of Art: Sarah Haas on What a Book Can Be

"The object gives language a heft that it doesn’t have on its own."

By Sarah Haas | November 12, 2020

Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

Eudora Welty: How My Parents Built a Childhood of Books

"I live in gratitude."

By Eudora Welty | November 12, 2020

On George Eliot's Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

On George Eliot's Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

Kathy O'Shaughnessy on Her "Liberating Honesty"

By Kathy O'Shaughnessy | November 12, 2020

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian<br> Epic to Life

How Sigrid Undset Brought a Medieval Norwegian
Epic to Life

Translator Tiina Nunnally on the Making of Olav Audunssøn

By Tiina Nunnally | November 12, 2020

Diane Cook on Letting Her Characters Loose in the Wilderness

Diane Cook on Letting Her Characters Loose in the Wilderness

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 12, 2020

So Many Damn Short Stories with Lena Valencia

So Many Damn Short Stories with Lena Valencia

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | November 12, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

By Emily Temple | November 11, 2020

Tracy K. Smith on Translating
the World of Yi Lei

By Tracy K. Smith | November 11, 2020

The Dissident Act of Taking a
Walk at Night

By Matthew Beaumont | November 11, 2020

Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

James Tate Hill with the Recommendations We Need

By James Tate Hill | November 11, 2020

Andrew Weatherhead on the Art (and Necessity) of Writing Collage

Andrew Weatherhead on the Art (and Necessity) of Writing Collage

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | November 11, 2020

A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

Joannie Stangeland Speaks to the Author of House of Sound

By Joannie Stangeland | November 11, 2020

Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

Kiese Laymon on Revision, Radical Friendship, and Community

By Kiese Laymon | November 10, 2020

On the Dark American Nostalgia of <em>Cheaper By the Dozen</em>

On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

Historian April Holm Joins Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | November 10, 2020

In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

BONUS: On the Importance of Not Writing

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2020

On Truth, Queerness, and Social Media: A Conversation with Jericho Brown

On Truth, Queerness, and Social Media: A Conversation with Jericho Brown

Poet Jona Colson Talks to the Pulitzer Prize Winner

By Jona Colson | November 10, 2020

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