Anna Mitchael on the Lessons of Ghostwriting

Anna Mitchael on the Lessons of Ghostwriting

"This learning isn’t just for those who quietly write stories for others."

By Anna Mitchael | May 30, 2025

May's Best Reviewed Fiction

May's Best Reviewed Fiction

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May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

May's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring Ron Chernow, Robert Macfarlane, Yiyun Li, and More

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Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America—and the New Pope

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 29, 2025

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

A Field Guide to the Artifacts from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost"

By Rebecca Solnit | May 29, 2025

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Rosie Stockton Explores the Tension Between Our Obsession With Freedom and the Constraints of Car-Centric Capitalism

By Rosie Stockton | May 29, 2025

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Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

By Simon Tolkien | May 29, 2025

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | May 29, 2025

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More "Nasty" Female Protagonists

By Laura Leffler | May 29, 2025

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

Darrow Farr on Patty Hearst, Exploitation, and Writing Other People's Traumas

By Darrow Farr | May 29, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"I felt like I was developing Stockholm syndrome with this novel."

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Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2025

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

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How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

"All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

By Catherine Bush | May 28, 2025

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

By Jonny Diamond | May 27, 2025

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