• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    What Makes Something Funny?

    By Stuart Evers  February 12, 2016
    Criticism

    A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

    By A. O. Scott  February 11, 2016
    Essay

    A Bikini, a Toothbrush, and 44 Issues of The New Yorker

    By Summer Brennan  February 11, 2016
    Advice

    How to Write What You Don’t Know

    By Amy Gustine  February 10, 2016
    Conversations

    Librarian Confidential: Polli Kenn

    By Literary Hub  February 10, 2016
    Conversations

    Idra Novey on Violence, Humor, and American Naiveté

    By Francisco Goldman  February 10, 2016
    Conversations

    Surviving San Francisco: Race, Money, and the Neoliberal Tech-Bro

    By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  February 9, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Vegetarian

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 9, 2016
    Conversations

    Elizabeth McKenzie on Vets, Bad Mothers, and Antidepressants

    By Bethanne Patrick  February 9, 2016
    Essay

    On Finding Yourself in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Nandini Balial  February 9, 2016
    Essay

    We Are At Risk of Losing Serious Readers

    By David Denby  February 8, 2016
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Writer’s Block Bookstore

    By Interview with a Bookstore  February 8, 2016
    Essay

    Kamila Shamsie On Intizar Hussain’s Novel, Basti

    By Kamila Shamsie  February 5, 2016
    Conversations

    Adapting Bolaño’s Unadaptable Masterpiece for the Stage

    By Monika Zaleska  February 4, 2016
    Essay

    When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece

    By Jeff Sharlet  February 4, 2016
    Conversations

    The Novel is Dead, Celebrity is a Disease, and More!

    By Chelsea Hodson  February 4, 2016
    Feature

    Writing, Traveling, and the Creative Act

    By Suzanne Joinson  February 4, 2016
    Feature

    The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

    By Michael Bourne  February 3, 2016
    Conversations

    What Kind of Literature Lives on the Dark Web?

    By Amy Brady  February 3, 2016
    Essay

    How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

    By Taylor Brown  February 3, 2016
    Essay

    You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

    By Matt Gallagher  February 2, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Pirate

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 29, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview with a Gatekeeper: Graywolf’s Jeff Shotts

    By Kerri Arsenault  January 29, 2016
    Essay

    Translating the Secret Language of War

    By Matthew J. Hefti  January 28, 2016
    Conversations

    Garth Greenwell on Sex, Passion, and the Queer Body

    By Adam Vitcavage  January 28, 2016
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