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Why Be a Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books

Why Be a Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 29, 2021

Shaping Hunger Into Practice: On the Creative Relationship Between Writers and Visual Artists

Shaping Hunger Into Practice: On the Creative Relationship Between Writers and Visual Artists

Sally Cabot Gunning Talks Painting the Light and Books that Spotlight Women Artists

By Sally Cabot Gunning | July 29, 2021

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

Amanda Choo Quan Considers the Effects of Anxiety and Racism on the Writing Life

By Amanda Choo Quan | July 28, 2021

What It Means to Exist: Bethany C. Morrow, TJ Klune, and Naomi Wiens on Sci-Fi for Teens

What It Means to Exist: Bethany C. Morrow, TJ Klune, and Naomi Wiens on Sci-Fi for Teens

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | July 28, 2021

Matthew Specktor on the “Cubist Razor Blade” of Extreme Success

Matthew Specktor on the “Cubist Razor Blade” of Extreme Success

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 28, 2021

Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 28, 2021

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

On Morality and Fools in Paul Fleischman’s Graven Images

By NewberyTart | July 28, 2021

Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

By Maggie Smith | July 27, 2021

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

By Jane Ciabattari | July 27, 2021

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

Amanda Kabak Recommends Sarah Waters, Michael Cunningham, and More

By Amanda Kabak | July 27, 2021

20 new books to get you through the week.

20 new books to get you through the week.

By Katie Yee | July 27, 2021

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s <em>Inferno</em>

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

Considering the Scarcity of Female Characters in the Cantos

By Mary Jo Bang | July 26, 2021

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

Julienne Gehrer Takes a Closer Look at Martha Lloyd’s Household Book

By Julienne Gehrer  | July 26, 2021

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

The Author of We Want What We Want Tries to Find the Shape of Things in Alice Munro, Ocean Vuong, and More

By Alix Ohlin | July 26, 2021

WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 26, 2021

Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines.

Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines.

By Dan Sheehan | July 23, 2021

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