• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Essay

    How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

    By Lorraine Berry  December 4, 2015
    Conversations

    Marlon James is Not the Updike of Jamaica, and Other Revelations

    By John Freeman  December 3, 2015
    Criticism

    How to Read a Movie Like a Book

    By Bridget Read  December 3, 2015
    Conversations

    On the Black Avant-Garde, Trigger Warnings, and Life in East Hampton

    By Adam Fitzgerald  December 2, 2015
    Did you know?

    Where Do Book Titles Come From?

    By Dustin Illingworth  December 2, 2015
    Novelists

    What Book Made You the Writer You Are Today?

    By Literary Hub  December 1, 2015
    Essay

    The Mainly True Tale of the Writer and the Spy

    By Laura Spence-Ash  November 30, 2015
    Advice

    Why You Should Move to Berlin to Be a Writer

    By Fatin Abbas  November 25, 2015
    Conversations

    “When Did You Start to Think of Yourself As African?”

    By Literary Hub  November 24, 2015
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody, Life Coach: “I Can No Longer Cry. Please Help.”

    By Rick Moody  November 24, 2015
    Conversations

    Jerry Stahl on Hep C, Fat Suits, and Masturbating Babies

    By Sabra Embury  November 23, 2015
    Criticism

    When Setting Trumps Character

    By Tobias Carroll  November 23, 2015
    Conversations

    Interview with a Bookstore: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

    By Interview with a Bookstore  November 23, 2015
    Conversations

    How Sophie Calle Became an Artist

    By Literary Hub  November 20, 2015
    Essay

    Are We Different People in Different Languages?

    By Ana Menéndez  November 19, 2015
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