• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    How I Gave Up On the Great American Novel and Got a Book Deal

    By Ed Tarkington  January 7, 2016
    Essay

    On Writers, Hoarders, and Their Clutter

    By Barry Yourgrau  January 7, 2016
    Conversations

    Christopher Buckley on Faith, Relics, and the Republican Party

    By Bethanne Patrick  January 6, 2016
    Conversations

    A 200-Year-Old Writing Center

    By Michele Filgate  January 6, 2016
    Essay

    The Time My Grown-Up Novel Was Marketed As Young Adult

    By Kate Axelrod  January 5, 2016
    Essay

    A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 4, 2016
    Essay

    Noel Coward, Reluctant Screenwriter

    By Barry Day  December 30, 2015
    Essay

    Why I Quit My Job as a Corporate Editor

    By Sarah Knight  December 29, 2015
    What to Read

    The Deep Obsessions of the Nonfiction Writer

    By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz  December 23, 2015
    Feature

    Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

    By Devoney Looser  December 23, 2015
    Criticism

    The Importance of Being Orwell

    By Christopher Hitchens  December 22, 2015
    Conversations

    So You’ve Decided to Launch an Imprint…

    By Literary Hub  December 17, 2015
    Criticism

    Men Explain Lolita to Me

    By Rebecca Solnit  December 17, 2015
    Feature

    On Lucia Berlin, Mentor, Friend

    By Chip Livingston  December 17, 2015
    Conversations

    Doctors Who Tell Stories: Oliver Sacks and Narrative Medicine

    By Ray Barfield  December 16, 2015
    Conversations

    Hilton Als on What It Means to Be Hopeful, Despite the World

    By Durga Chew-Bose  December 16, 2015
    Criticism

    Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?

    By Michael Fallon  December 15, 2015
    Profile

    Kevin Barry: Portrait of the Young Artist in a Poncho

    By Will Chancellor  December 14, 2015
    What to Read

    Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  December 14, 2015
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Book Passage

    By Interview with a Bookstore  December 14, 2015
    History

    A Brief, Wondrous History of Arabic Literature

    By Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey  December 11, 2015
    Conversations

    All the Life in the World on One Street In Paris

    By Lauren Elkin  December 11, 2015
    Criticism

    Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2015
    Essay

    A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

    By Matthew Neill Null  December 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Algeria After Camus

    By Namara Smith  December 8, 2015
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