• Craft and Criticism

    The Craft of Writing

    Alicia Kennedy on Navigating the Thorny Terrain of Food Writing

    By Alicia Kennedy  September 1, 2023
    Reading List

    A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

    By Jill Talbot  September 1, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 1, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 1, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Never-Ending Transgender Talk Show: A Conversation with Framing Agnes Director Chase Joynt

    By Spencer Williams  September 1, 2023
    Mother-Writers

    What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

    By Lightsey Darst  August 31, 2023
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 31, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Kansas Reflector Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 31, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

    By The Maris Review  August 31, 2023
    Cosmology

    On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

    By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
    Unlikable Women

    Why the Rise of Morally Gray Women In Fiction Is Good For All of Us

    By Megan Barnard  August 30, 2023
    Speculative fiction

    Apocalypse Now: Why It’s Cathartic To Read About the End of the World

    By Yume Kitasei  August 30, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Nancy Bilyeau Reads From The Orchid Hour

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  August 30, 2023
    Literary History

    How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov’s Lolita from Being Published

    By Thomas Harding  August 29, 2023
    Gardening

    The Real-Life Poetry of Gardening

    By Tess Taylor  August 29, 2023
    Storytelling

    Megan Kamalei Kakimoto On The Many Ways To Tell a Hawaiian Story

    By Megan Kamalei Kakimoto  August 29, 2023
    Motherhood

    What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

    By Jessica Hendry Nelson  August 29, 2023
    In Conversation

    Angie Kim on Measures of Happiness and the Many Forms Intelligence Can Take

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 29, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Anne Lamott on Starting Where You Are

    By Talk Easy  August 29, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Daniel Hornsby on the Charisma of a First-Person Narrator

    By I'm a Writer But   August 29, 2023
    Parenthood

    The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life

    By Rebecca Ackermann  August 28, 2023
    In Conversation

    Miles Franklin Winner Shankari Chandran on Defining Australianness

    By Janet Manley  August 28, 2023
    Write-minded

    Rebecca Carroll and Jeannine Ouellette on the Art of Memoir

    By Write-minded   August 28, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction’s Response to Existential Crises

    By History of Literature  August 28, 2023
    Humor

    Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

    By Michael Wood  August 25, 2023
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