• Craft and Criticism

    On Writing

    How My Library Patrons Unexpectedly Helped Me Finish My Novel

    By Laura Sims  July 27, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 27, 2023
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 27, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Donovan X. Ramsey on How Media Sensationalized Crack

    By The Maris Review  July 27, 2023
    The Hub

    Weird, funny, dark children’s books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

    By Janet Manley  July 26, 2023
    Sex

    The New Sex Writing: In Praise of the “Idiotic Erotic”

    By Tamara Faith Berger  July 26, 2023
    Queer Literature

    A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Northern England

    By Helen Palmer  July 26, 2023
    Family Histories

    Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

    By Mihret Sibhat  July 26, 2023
    In Conversation

    Stacy Szymaszek on the Liberatory Possibilities of Outsider Poetry

    By Sallie Fullerton  July 26, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Donal Ryan Reads from The Queen of Dirt Island

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  July 26, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself

    By Talk Easy  July 25, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

    By Jonathan Galassi  July 25, 2023
    Cats

    Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

    By Terrance Hayes  July 25, 2023
    Family Histories

    The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

    By Wendy Chin-Tanner  July 25, 2023
    Rereadings

    Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

    By Wang Xiaobo  July 25, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Ben Hinshaw on the “Strange Channeling” of Writing

    By I'm a Writer But   July 25, 2023
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Jasmine Lee-Jones on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 25, 2023
    Obsessions

    On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

    By Hannah Meyer  July 24, 2023
    Criticism

    Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

    By Efrén Ordóñez Garza  July 24, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Jack Zipes on the Political Potential of Fairy Tales

    By History of Literature  July 24, 2023
    Creativity

    What Completism Can Teach Us About the Creative Process

    By Rhian Sasseen  July 24, 2023
    First Draft

    Alice Elliott Dark on the Moral Argument of Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 24, 2023
    Write-minded

    Ben Purkert on the Art of Writing Unlikable Characters

    By Write-minded   July 24, 2023
    The Hub

    What are the books Ken checks out of the library in Barbie? They’re book.

    By Janet Manley  July 21, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Paula Hawkins on Creating a Strong Story Structure

    By Paula Hawkins  July 21, 2023
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