• Craft and Criticism

    Italian Literature

    “Wade Into the Muck With Me.” On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante

    By Gina Frangello  June 6, 2024
    Motherhood

    Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

    By Claire Kilroy  June 6, 2024
    Rereadings

    Ten Years Later: Reading Laura van den Berg’s Timeless Classic, The Isle of Youth

    By Kyle Dillon Hertz  June 6, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Morgan Talty Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 6, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 6, 2024
    The Hub

    Why are so many adults still obsessed with Busytown?

    By James Folta  June 5, 2024
    Mother-Writers

    “At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

    By Janet Manley  June 5, 2024
    Writing the Novel

    In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer

    By Peyton Marshall  June 5, 2024
    Reissues

    Appreciating the Understated Complexity of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

    By Nick Hornby  June 5, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Ursula Buchan on John Buchan

    By History of Literature  June 5, 2024
    Ancestors

    Chasing Storms: Christiana Spens on The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens

    By Christiana Spens  June 4, 2024
    In Conversation

    Morgan Talty on Writing a Native American Novel That Subverts Expectations

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 4, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Lady pirates! Kafkaesque stories! Ovid’s advice! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 4, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Ferdia Lennon on the Usefulness of Being Lost

    By I'm a Writer But   June 4, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Space Smooches and Surreal Short Stories: June’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  June 3, 2024
    Poetry

    Holding Up Mirrors to the Self: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June

    By David Woo  June 3, 2024
    On Reading

    The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

    By Emily Hodgson Anderson  June 3, 2024
    Children's Literature

    Cursed Rats, Doll Dreams, and Latin American Folktales: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in June

    By Caroline Carlson  June 3, 2024
    First Draft

    Claire Messud on Getting Distance on Characters

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 3, 2024
    Write-minded

    Josh Cook on the Behind the Scenes of Selling Books

    By Write-minded   June 3, 2024
    Reading Lists

    May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  May 31, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Liana Finck on the Beauty of Problems

    By Liana Finck  May 31, 2024
    Reading Lists

    May’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  May 31, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Jhumpa Lahiri! Colson Whitehead! Sex cults! 25 new books out in paperback this June.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 31, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

    By AudioFile Magazine  May 31, 2024
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