• Craft and Criticism

    Deep Dive

    Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?

    By Alex Beam  December 6, 2016
    Conversations

    Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality, and Beyond

    By Literary Hub  December 6, 2016
    Translation

    César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

    By Mark Haber  December 6, 2016
    Did you know?

    Watch James Toback Tell The Story of Getting Punched by Norman Mailer

    By Emily Temple  December 6, 2016
    Feature

    For Writers Who Are Also the Mothers of Small Children

    By Marcy Dermansky  December 5, 2016
    Craft

    From Hemingway to Kathy Acker: Making Art from the Outside

    By Ellena Savage  December 5, 2016
    Craft

    Watch Joan Didion Talk About Writing as Aggression

    By Emily Temple  December 5, 2016
    Feature

    Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America’s Soul

    By Veronica Esposito  December 5, 2016
    Poets

    Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

    By Rajat Singh  December 5, 2016
    Criticism

    Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

    By Katharine Noel  December 2, 2016
    Conversations

    What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

    By Literary Hub  December 2, 2016
    Conversations

    How to Love Your Crooked Neighbor With Your Crooked Heart

    By Allison Moorer  December 2, 2016
    Personal Essay

    I Was a Ghostwriter for a Ghostwriter

    By Michael Hafford  December 1, 2016
    Conversations

    Love in a Time of Plague: Lessons from the Front Lines of AIDS Activism

    By Literary Hub  December 1, 2016
    Writer's block

    On Overcoming a Deadly Case of Writer’s Block

    By Rob Hart  December 1, 2016
    Feature

    A Visit to the Shadowy World of Rare Book Theft

    By Dwyer Murphy  December 1, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of ‘Patient Zero,’ and the Book That Started It All

    By Harron Walker  December 1, 2016
    Poets

    Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

    By Michael Denneny  December 1, 2016
    Personal Essay

    The Gifts of Reading Are Many

    By Robert Macfarlane  November 30, 2016
    Deep Dive

    A Feminist Thoreau

    By Rafia Zakaria  November 30, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview With a Gatekeeper: OR Books’ Colin Robinson

    By Kerri Arsenault  November 30, 2016
    Conversations

    Ted Chiang on Arrival, the Boredom of Moviemaking, and The Princess Bride

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  November 29, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

    By Clare Sestanovich  November 29, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

    By Miriam Toews  November 28, 2016
    Essay

    On Decades of Diaries: Intimate, Profane, Honest

    By Meg Elison  November 28, 2016
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