Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

On Margarita Khemlin's Novel Klotsvog

By Lara Vapnyar | August 22, 2019

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

Jay Parini on the Art of Inventing Real Life

By Jay Parini | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

Bookish Ambition! Awkward Gentleness! Goth Sexiness! He Had It All

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

Walter Mosley in Conversation with Legendary Filmmaker Walter Bernstein

In Celebration of Bernstein's 100th Birthday

By Walter Mosley | August 20, 2019

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 20, 2019

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

Nicola Waldron Wonders if Writing Can Be a Kink

By Nicola Waldron | August 20, 2019

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Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

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In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

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Hannah Steinkopf-Frank in Conversation with Her Mom, Deborah, and the Novelist Rebecca Makkai

By Hannah Steinkopf-Frank | August 16, 2019

Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

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Buzz Poole on Erik Davis’s High Weirdness

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Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother's Romance Novels

Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother's Romance Novels

Isabelle Davis on Finding Just the Right Books at Just the Right Time

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