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When to Write It, When to Walk Away: On the Problem of Too Much Metaphor

When to Write It, When to Walk Away: On the Problem of Too Much Metaphor

Jessica Francis Kane Makes Rags From Riches

By Jessica Francis Kane | May 14, 2019

Behind the Book Dedications:

Behind the Book Dedications: "A Private Moment in a Public Object"

Secret Messages, Sweet Nothings, and Sincere Thanks

By Julia Carpenter | May 14, 2019

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

How to Reconstruct a Life with the Public Record

By David A. Taylor | May 14, 2019

Erin Somers on Rich Kids, Melancholy, Slapstick, and More

Erin Somers on Rich Kids, Melancholy, Slapstick, and More

In Conversation on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | May 14, 2019

Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

Exhumations and Revelations, from Zora Neale Hurston
to Bette Howland

By Joanna Scutts | May 13, 2019

Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

Anne Valente Would Rather Just Make You a Playlist

By Anne Valente | May 13, 2019

Best Reviewed
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5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Jackson, Mississippi

By Tom Head | May 13, 2019

Tobias Wolff on the Iconic Memoir He Never
Intended to Write

By Tobias Wolff | May 10, 2019

What Do Mothers and Children Owe Each Other?

By Literary Hub | May 10, 2019

On the Writing Life and Safeguarding Privacy

On the Writing Life and Safeguarding Privacy

Esi Edugyan on the Fraught Relationship Between the
Writer and the Void

By Esi Edugyan | May 10, 2019

The Stories Mothers Never Tell

The Stories Mothers Never Tell

A Collaborative Essay by Jill Talbot and Marcia Aldrich

By Jill Talbot and Marcia Aldrich | May 10, 2019

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

Illustrating the Visual Illusions of Walter Benjamin's Mind

On Wandering Through—and Recreating—a Writer's Marginalia

By Frances Cannon | May 9, 2019

One German's Two-Decade Search for a Poem She Couldn't Quite Name

One German's Two-Decade Search for a Poem She Couldn't Quite Name

Susanne Tagder on Her 20-Year Quest to Find the Land of the Midnight Sun

By Susanne Tägder | May 9, 2019

16 Poet Biopics, Ranked

16 Poet Biopics, Ranked

"Dead gay poets? Erotic violence? Sounds like a DiCaprio project."

By Emily Temple | May 8, 2019

What Would It Mean to Live in <br>a World Without Stories?

What Would It Mean to Live in
a World Without Stories?

Alexis Wright on the Systemic Weaponization of Silence

By Alexis Wright | May 8, 2019

Damian Barr Moves From Memoir to Fiction and Finds Inspiration in a Real Life Crime

Damian Barr Moves From Memoir to Fiction and Finds Inspiration in a Real Life Crime

"You want the whole thing to be historic—but these stories are hideously contemporary."

By Daneet Steffens | May 8, 2019

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