A Legendary Publishing House's Most Infamous Rejection Letters

A Legendary Publishing House's Most Infamous Rejection Letters

When Faber & Faber’s T.S. Eliot Passed on George Orwell (and More)

By Toby Faber | September 12, 2019

The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott's Invented World

The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott's Invented World

The Author of The World Doesn't Require You in Conversation with Danielle Evans

By Danielle Evans | September 12, 2019

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of<br> <em>Darkness at Noon</em>

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
Darkness at Noon

Michael Scammell on the Eternal Totalitarian Truths of Arthur Koestler's Classic

By Michael Scammell | September 12, 2019

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

Fadhil al-Azzawi, a Countercultural Literary Force

By Farouk Yousif | September 12, 2019

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Natalie Adler on Anne Boyer's The Undying

By Natalie Adler | September 11, 2019

Emma Donoghue on <em>Hamilton</em>, Writer's Block, and Giving Up on <em>War and Peace</em>

Emma Donoghue on Hamilton, Writer's Block, and Giving Up on War and Peace

5 Questions for the Author of Room and Akin

By Literary Hub | September 11, 2019

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What Incarcerated Writers Want the Literary Community to Understand

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Jhumpa Lahiri on Editing an Anthology of Italian Fiction

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Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

Lori Feathers in Conversation with the Author of Ducks, Newburyport

By Lori Feathers | September 9, 2019

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

Andrew Ervin on Gormenghast and The Big Book of Fantasy

By Andrew Ervin | September 9, 2019

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

On Self-Publishing, Vanity, and the Need of a Good Editor

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 9, 2019

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

Rosamond S. King on the Contradictions of Literary Gratitude

By Rosamond S. King | September 9, 2019

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

A Close Reading of Christie's 80th book, Passenger to Frankfurt, by Slavoj Žižek

By Slavoj Žižek | September 9, 2019

Monique Truong Has Always Admired Jo from <em>Little Women</em>

Monique Truong Has Always Admired Jo from Little Women

In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | September 9, 2019

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

On Charles S. Wright's 1960s Novels of Societal Rejects

By Ishmael Reed | September 6, 2019

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