• Craft and Criticism

    Feature

    Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

    By Eric Thurm  October 5, 2016
    Essay

    To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

    By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough  October 4, 2016
    Essay

    How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

    By Tom Shroder  October 4, 2016
    Essay

    Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

    By David L. Ulin  October 3, 2016
    Profile

    Ann Cleeves, Master of the Village Noir

    By Daneet Steffens  October 3, 2016
    How to...

    Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

    By iO Tillett Wright  October 3, 2016
    Essay

    One Story, Two Tellers: When Someone Else Wrote the Same Book As Me

    By Lorraine Boissoneault  October 3, 2016
    Essay

    The Time I Wrote a 150,000-Word Pulp Novel in a Month to Win a Bet

    By Stanley Donwood  September 30, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview with a Gatekeeper: Matt Weiland, Lover of Soccer and Talking Rabbits

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 29, 2016
    Dear aspiring writer

    How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

    By David Attwell  September 29, 2016
    Close Reading

    The Haunting of Shirley Jackson

    By Laura Miller  September 28, 2016
    Conversations

    Helen Garner on Court, Burning Diaries, and the Violence of Love

    By John Freeman  September 27, 2016
    What to Read

    The Grumpy Librarian: If Your Living Room is Carpeted in Thorns…

    By Caitlin Goodman  September 27, 2016
    Conversations

    On Solitude, Compromise, and Publishing That First Novel

    By Literary Hub  September 27, 2016
    Essay

    On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

    By Nathan Goldman  September 27, 2016
    Conversations

    Fact-Check: Mark Greif is Not Actually Against Everything

    By Jess Bergman  September 27, 2016
    Conversations

    Elliptical and Black: Roxane Gay in Conversation with Rion Amilcar Scott

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2016
    Essay

    The Secret to Faking Your Own Death

    By Elizabeth Greenwood  September 26, 2016
    Close Reading

    How Peyton Place Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

    By Nathan Smith  September 26, 2016
    Conversations

    Lily King and Margot Livesey on Loss, Inspiration, and Ambition

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2016
    Conversations

    TV in the Age of Trump: An Interview with Emily Nussbaum

    By Christopher Lydon  September 23, 2016
    Close Reading

    Edith Wharton’s Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

    By Colette Shade  September 22, 2016
    Poets

    Getting Paid for Poetry in the Digital Age

    By Deirdre Coyle  September 22, 2016
    Conversations

    Joyce Carol Oates on Great Editors, Bad Reviews, and… The Internet

    By Catherine LaSota  September 21, 2016
    Conversations

    Why Do We Love Watching Women Self-Destruct?

    By Noah Berlatsky  September 21, 2016
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