• Craft and Criticism

    The Craft of Writing

    Sean Michaels on Collaborating with AI to Write a Novel

    By Sean Michaels  September 8, 2023
    New Books Network

    Em X. Liu on Putting Hamlet in a Sci-Fi Lab

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Kai Bird on Joining Martin Sherwin to Write Oppenheimer’s Biography

    By The Literary Life  September 8, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  September 8, 2023
    Memoirs

    Porochista Khakpour on the Unrelatable Brilliance of Alison Rose’s Better Than Sane

    By Porochista Khakpour  September 7, 2023
    Boarding School

    A New Era for Boarding School Literature

    By Emma Staffaroni  September 7, 2023
    Chefs

    Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

    By Brendan Shay Basham  September 7, 2023
    Writing Advice

    Acting Out a Life: How to Write Novels About Real People

    By Gill Paul  September 7, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Myriam Gurba on Writing the Visceral

    By The Maris Review  September 7, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 7, 2023
    Money Matters

    “Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

    By Yiyun Li  September 6, 2023
    Diaries

    A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

    By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
    Lyric Essays

    Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

    By Hugh Ryan  September 6, 2023
    Criticism

    Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

    By Safiya Sinclair  September 6, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   September 6, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Richard Powers on How to Reconnect with Earth

    By Talk Easy  September 6, 2023
    In Conversation

    “Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

    By Moira Marquis  September 5, 2023
    Poetry

    Elaine Equi on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice and a Universal Language

    By Elaine Equi  September 5, 2023
    The Lord of the Rings

    Is The Lord of the Rings a Work of Modernism?

    By Nick Groom  September 5, 2023
    Rare Books

    The Beauty of Physical Encounters with Rare Books

    By Kathleen B. Jones  September 5, 2023
    American West

    Notions of “Wilderness:” Nine Essential Books About the American Frontier

    By Peter Stark  September 5, 2023
    First Draft

    David van den Berg on Seeing the Darkness

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 5, 2023
    Write-minded

    Lisa Leshne Offers Agent Insights

    By Memoir Nation   September 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: On Love’s Many Manifestations in A Green Equinox

    By Lucy Scholes  September 1, 2023
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