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On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User's Manual

On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User's Manual

Caitlin Horrocks Offers Some Advice for Writing Into the Past

By Caitlin Horrocks | August 9, 2019

The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

At the Intersection of Dystopia and Technology in Palestinian Life

By Bhakti Shringarpure | August 9, 2019

Romanticizing Mount Everest Misses the Real Story

Romanticizing Mount Everest Misses the Real Story

"An entire population has been overlooked for decades"

By Adam Popescu | August 9, 2019

On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

Stephanie Toliver on Not Deferring the Dream of Black Girls Being Represented in YASF

By Stephanie Toliver | August 8, 2019

"The Greatest Menace to the Writer is the Reader" and Other Advice from Shirley Jackson

(But Don't Worry, You Can Beat Him at His Own Game.)

By Emily Temple | August 8, 2019

The Hate Mail I Got When I Wrote About My Hometown in Upstate New York

The Hate Mail I Got When I Wrote About My Hometown in Upstate New York

Brock Clarke On Capturing the Messy, Individual Voices of Little Falls

By Brock Clarke | August 8, 2019

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The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Wrote

By Anne Margaret Daniel | August 7, 2019

We'll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

By Elliott Holt | August 7, 2019

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

By Tope Folarin | August 7, 2019

"You Don't Know Anything." And Other Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

I don’t want to hear about your true love and your mama and your papa and your friends.

By Emily Temple | August 6, 2019

Toni Morrison on Reality TV, Black Lives Matter, and Meeting Jeff Bezos

Toni Morrison on Reality TV, Black Lives Matter, and Meeting Jeff Bezos

In Conversation with One of America's Greatest Writers

By Literary Hub | August 6, 2019

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

Kate McQuade on Yaa Gyasi, Art Spiegelman, Tim O'Brien, and More

By Kate McQuade | August 6, 2019

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

Gunnhild Øyehaug: "That year of reading was a year of transformation."

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | August 6, 2019

Toward a Theory of the New Weird

Toward a Theory of the New Weird

Elvia Wilk on a Feminist Understanding of Eerie Fiction

By Elvia Wilk | August 5, 2019

On the Pitfalls and Power of <br>the Religious Essay

On the Pitfalls and Power of
the Religious Essay

Sonja Livingston: "Go to where the silence is."

By Sonja Livingston | August 5, 2019

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

On the 'Monstrous Development of Technology'

By Walter Benjamin | August 2, 2019

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