What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

Sara Fitzgerald on Unrequited Love and a Recently Declassified Epistolary Correspondence

By Sara Fitzgerald | September 6, 2024

An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

The Author of “Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body” Explores the Many Meanings and Possibilities of a Poetic Category

By Lory Bedikian | September 6, 2024

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

The Author of “Life and Death of the American Worker” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

By Sarah Viren | September 5, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The men in her fiction are black holes who threaten to extinguish the light of any woman or child unlucky enough to get near them.”

By Book Marks | September 5, 2024

Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

Shannon Bowring on Setting a Book’s Sequel in the Same, Yet Evolving, Literary Universe

By Shannon Bowring | September 5, 2024

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

“A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

For Maureen Sun Transparency Is Not Always a Virtue

By Maureen Sun | September 5, 2024

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Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 5, 2024

Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

By Jane Ciabattari | September 4, 2024

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

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Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Explores the Anglo-Indian Author’s “Departmental Ditties”

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay | September 4, 2024

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

Iheoma Nwachukwu on Food, Language and the Immigrant Experience

By Iheoma Nwachukwu | September 4, 2024

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

Josephine Quinn on the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature

By Josephine Quinn | September 4, 2024

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's <em>Joe Gould's Secret</em>

Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould's Secret

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 4, 2024

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Space Eurovision and the Countess of Monte Cristo: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Post-Apocalyptic Epic Fantasy and Speculative Swashbucklers From Andrea Stewart, Catherynne M. Valente, and More

By Natalie Zutter | September 3, 2024

A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

A Fall Harvest of Titles for Kids and Teens: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September

Caroline Carlson Shares What to Pack in Your Kids' Backpack This Month

By Caroline Carlson | September 3, 2024

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s <em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> and <em>The Fortress of Solitude</em>

Archive of the Forgotten: Charles Yu on Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude

“There has always been this energy, back-of-the-store energy... Lethem has channeled that energy.”

By Charles Yu | September 3, 2024

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