• Features

    Cundill History Prize

    Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

    By Alison Bashford  September 28, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 17 Best Book Covers of September

    By Emily Temple  September 28, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 28, 2023
    Poetry

    “Notice to Appear,” a Poem by Leslie Sainz

    By Leslie Sainz  September 28, 2023
    What to Watch

    How Oppenheimer Fails to Unpack the Craft at the Core of Its Drama

    By Claire Tuna  September 28, 2023
    Beyond the Page

    Anne Applebaum, Robert Kagan, and Evan Osnos on Democracy

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  September 28, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

    By The Maris Review  September 28, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Mona Awad on Beauty Cults and Tom Cruise

    By So Many Damn Books  September 28, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert’s Dune

    By Ryan Britt  September 27, 2023
    The Journey That Matters

    WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Creating the World of Earthsea

    By Arwen Curry  September 27, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    Poem

    “Living Fossil, Living God,” a Poem by Quan Barry

    By Quan Barry  September 27, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    Genre

    The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  September 27, 2023
    On Writing

    The Diving Suit and the Bathtub, or: How a Single Image Sparked a Whole Novel

    By Steve Stern  September 27, 2023
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable from Regina Kanyu Wang: “A Day of Snaky”

    By Future Fables  September 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Myisha Cherry on Forgiveness

    By Keen On  September 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Hugh Eakin on 1939, Pablo Picasso, and Modern Art in America

    By Keen On  September 27, 2023
    Writing Process

    “To Be A Writer, You Must Write”: How Joan Didion Became Joan Didion

    By Evelyn McDonnell  September 26, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Enduring Epics: Emily Wilson and Madeline Miller on Breathing New Life Into Ancient Classics

    By Emily Wilson  September 26, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Writing the Novel

    How Nora Fussner Turned a Reality TV Job Into a Novel

    By Nora Fussner  September 26, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jayne Anne Phillips on Uncovering the Hidden Aftermath of the Civil War

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 26, 2023
    Lit Century

    Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    By Lit Century   September 26, 2023
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