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What Close Reading Can Reveal About an Author’s Intentions
Suzanne Berne Considers the Story As a Relationship Between Writers and Readers
By
Suzanne Berne
| May 11, 2026
Schiaparelli and Spark: On the Fashion of
The Girls of Slender Means
Lilian Pizzichini Looks for The Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Schiaparelli Exhibition
By
Lilian Pizzichini
| May 11, 2026
This Week in Literary History: Virginia Woolf’s
Mrs Dalloway
is Published.
The Origin of a Masterpiece
By
Literary Hub
| May 11, 2026
Mysterious, Isolated and Seductive: The Map of Literary Islands That Inspired My Novel
Christiana Spens: “Even when you have left an island, it lingers on in your imagination as a half-real and half-made-up place.”
By
Christiana Spens
| May 11, 2026
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart, Siri Hustvedt, and more
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| May 8, 2026
Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick
A Lesson from a Long Career of Magazine Writing
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Tom Junod
| May 8, 2026
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Why Writing Stories For Children is So Much Harder Than Writing Stories For Adults
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Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?
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Kristen Arnett
| May 7, 2026
Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine
By
Irene Zabytko
| May 7, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“One can barely imagine the intolerable weight of this family inheritance... irresistible for so many years yet the only thing one wants to escape.”
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| May 7, 2026
In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing
Harrison Hill in Conversation with Benjamin Hale
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Literary Hub
| May 7, 2026
Ocean Vuong: Photographer First, Writer Second?
Sarah Moroz on a Recent Exhibition of the Poet-Turned-Novelist Who’s Always Had a in Camera Hand
By
Sarah Moroz
| May 7, 2026
On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy
Davin Malasarn in Conversation With Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez
By
Davin Malasarn
| May 7, 2026
New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles
Rosa Campbell Considers the Decades-Long Development of an Iconic Poetic Voice
By
Rosa Campbell
| May 7, 2026
We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women
Laurie Frankel Recommends Susie Boyt, Tove Jansson, Zadie Smith and More
By
Laurie Frankel
| May 7, 2026
Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence
Diane Les Becquets: “And I watched those moments unfold before me, as if in real time, and I felt everything.”
By
Diane Les Becquets
| May 7, 2026
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