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Even Seamus Heaney <br>Made Mistakes

Even Seamus Heaney
Made Mistakes

On Poetry, Wordsworth, and Misremembering

By Erica McAlpine | July 6, 2020

Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter's Writing Means to Her

Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter's Writing Means to Her

Criticism in Verse by the Author of Terra Nullius

By Claire G. Coleman | July 6, 2020

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov's Best Writing Advice

Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov's Best Writing Advice

"Style is not a tool, it is not a method, it is not a choice of words alone."

By Emily Temple | July 2, 2020

To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called 'Healing'

To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called 'Healing'

Shayla Lawson: It Is Not Your Job to Fix White People

By Shayla Lawson | July 1, 2020

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

Susan D'Agostino on the Search for Symmetry

By Susan D’Agostino | July 1, 2020

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

Sophie Mackintosh on the Art That Takes Us Into Uncharted Territory

By Sophie MacKintosh | June 30, 2020

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Filmmaker Sara Fattahi on Bringing a Woman's
Perspective of War

By Pamela Cohn | June 29, 2020

Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay

By Rabih Alameddine | June 26, 2020

How Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing
a Novel

By Anna Cox | June 26, 2020

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

"I’d be thrilled to be known in fifty years’ time as a minor gay writer from the 1990s."

By John McIntyre | June 26, 2020

Ottessa Moshfegh's Year of Anything But Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh's Year of Anything But Rest and Relaxation

The Author of Death in Her Hands Talks to Kristin Iversen About Isolation, Self-Awareness and Cancel Culture

By Kristin Iversen | June 25, 2020

On <em>Orlando</em>, and Virginia Woolf's Defiance of Time

On Orlando, and Virginia Woolf's Defiance of Time

“Memory is the seamstress” of our inner lives, “and a
capricious one at that.” 

By Theodore Martin | June 25, 2020

How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

Richard Farrell on Writing, Yearning, Flying, and Falling

By Richard Farrell | June 25, 2020

Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa's Disquiet

Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa's Disquiet

Thomas Swick on the Unlikely Success of a Summer Writing Program

By Thomas Swick | June 24, 2020

Vivian Gornick on the

Vivian Gornick on the "Forgotten" Wife of Victorian Novelist, George Meredith

Mrs. Meredith Finally Gets Her Due

By Vivian Gornick | June 24, 2020

Roddy Doyle on Writing: Start With Quantity, Worry About Quality Later

Roddy Doyle on Writing: Start With Quantity, Worry About Quality Later

The Author of Love Answers a Few Questions From Lockdown

By Literary Hub | June 23, 2020

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