On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

Ruby Brunton Considers the Work of Ditlevsen, Marguerite Duras, and Vanessa Springora

By Ruby Brunton | March 18, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Price of Peace</em> by Zachary D. Carter

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 18, 2021

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

Brock Clarke: What Makes a Good Person Doesn’t Usually Make for a Good Story

By Brock Clarke | March 17, 2021

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

Mark Haber Traces an Indispensable Influence on His Reading
and Writing Life

By Mark Haber | March 17, 2021

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

David Laskin on an Unyielding Literary Paradox

By David Laskin | March 17, 2021

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Looking Back at the "Wild and Elusive" Poet

By Vivian Gornick | March 17, 2021

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Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

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This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

By Carlin Romano | March 17, 2021

Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

By Patricia M. Dwyer | March 16, 2021

How Would the Publishing World Respond to <em>Lolita</em> Today?

How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?

Jenny Minton Quigley on the Novel Her Father Published

By Jenny Minton Quigley | March 16, 2021

How <em>The End of Vandalism</em> Treats Small-Town America

How The End of Vandalism Treats Small-Town America

Adalena Kavanagh in Conversation with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols on Lit Century

By Lit Century | March 16, 2021

On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

Layla AlAmmar Considers Literature That Seeks to Represent the Unrepresentable

By Layla AlAmmar | March 16, 2021

Why We're Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

Why We're Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

This Week from the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | March 16, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

When Don Lee Sent a Longshot Email to Will Johnson

By Don Lee | March 15, 2021

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

Ralph Keyes on the Rich Literary History of the Neologism

By Ralph Keyes | March 15, 2021

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