Marcial Gala on Writing Cuba and Reworking <em>The Iliad</em>

Marcial Gala on Writing Cuba and Reworking The Iliad

“My literary project is Cienfuegos: world capital.”

By Samuel Jaffe Goldstein | January 28, 2022

John Darnielle on the Crisis of Conscience in True Crime

John Darnielle on the Crisis of Conscience in True Crime

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | January 27, 2022

Deesha Philyaw on Why Her Book Should Not Have Succeeded

Deesha Philyaw on Why Her Book Should Not Have Succeeded

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | January 27, 2022

Why You Should Be Reading More Catalan Literature in Translation

Why You Should Be Reading More Catalan Literature in Translation

Translator Laura McGloughlin Picks Her Favorites

By Laura McGloughlin | January 27, 2022

How Modern Storytelling Uses Aliens to Talk About Humanity

How Modern Storytelling Uses Aliens to Talk About Humanity

Mike Chen on the Power of Allegory in Science Fiction

By Mike Chen | January 27, 2022

Why We Need to Revisit Old Myths to Create New Ones

Why We Need to Revisit Old Myths to Create New Ones

Michael Bazzett on How We Learn from Ancient Stories

By Michael Bazzett | January 27, 2022

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We Will Always Need Virginia Woolf: A Common Reader’s Defense

We Will Always Need Virginia Woolf: A Common Reader’s Defense

Emma Knight Contemplates the Legacy of a Literary Icon

By Emma Knight | January 25, 2022

Jessamine Chan and Crystal Hana Kim Talk Pregnancy, Depression, and Asian American Heroism

Jessamine Chan and Crystal Hana Kim Talk Pregnancy, Depression, and Asian American Heroism

The School for Good Mothers has its “Finger on the Pulse of Culture”

By Crystal Hana Kim | January 25, 2022

Kirstin Valdez Quade on Fleur Jaeggy, <em>Middlemarch</em>, and Sarah Waters Sex Scenes

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Rapid-Fire Book Recs From the Author of The Five Wounds

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On Sophocles, Boswell, and the Power of Literature

On Sophocles, Boswell, and the Power of Literature

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | January 24, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Watch David Strathairn and Abraham Verghese Discuss Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser”

EXCLUSIVE: Watch David Strathairn and Abraham Verghese Discuss Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser”

From Season 3 of Poetry in America

By The Virtual Book Channel | January 21, 2022

“The Uterus and the American Dream.” Art-Making and Domestic Labor in <em>Bergman Island</em>

“The Uterus and the American Dream.” Art-Making and Domestic Labor in Bergman Island

Mira Ptacin on Mia Hansen-Løve’s New Film

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