What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

Gabrielle Hickmon Explores a Seminal Work of
Global Feminism, Showing Our Colours

By Gabrielle Hickmon | December 10, 2019

Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

John Erik Riley Takes the Long Road to Srebrenica

By John Erik Riley | December 9, 2019

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

By Freeman's | December 9, 2019

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

Considering the Relativity of Beauty in Human History

By Umberto Eco | December 9, 2019

The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male

The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male

Nadeem Zaman on Being a South-Asian Writer in America

By Nadeem Zaman | December 9, 2019

Ophelia and After: Inventing the<br> Lonely Literary Woman

Ophelia and After: Inventing the
Lonely Literary Woman

Cleo Qian on Vivian Gornick, Ottessa Moshfegh, Sayaka Murata, and More

By Cleo Qian | December 6, 2019

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Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

By John F. Callahan | December 6, 2019

How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me

By Gillian Conoley | December 6, 2019

The Unapologetic Politics <br>of Howard Fast

The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast

Mark Harris on the Writer Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy

By Mark Harris | December 6, 2019

Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

Pen Parentis Turns Ten!

By Matt Grant | December 6, 2019

Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty

Charles Wright's Resistance Against Certainty

Mary Szybist on the Poetics of Her Former Teacher

By Mary Szybist | December 5, 2019

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience

By Liesl Schillinger | December 5, 2019

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

Live from the Miami Book Fair with Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 5, 2019

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br> 30 Years to Write

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

"Critics still don’t entirely know what to do with us."

By Literary Hub | December 4, 2019

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