Stephanie Duncan Smith on Excavating Your Work’s Aboutness

Stephanie Duncan Smith on Excavating Your Work’s Aboutness

“If you’re struggling to frame what your book is about, listen to the tension and it will tell you.”

By Stephanie Duncan Smith | September 20, 2024

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Kim Liao Explores Her Grandfather's History as a Freedom Fighter and Dissident in Taiwan

By Kim Liao | September 20, 2024

I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 19, 2024

“A Very Smart and Accessible Friend.” Why the <em>Chicago Manual of Style</em> Remains Essential

“A Very Smart and Accessible Friend.” Why the Chicago Manual of Style Remains Essential

Seven Writers and Editors Discuss What they Love Most About This Faithful Companion of Grammar Nerds Everywhere

By Literary Hub | September 19, 2024

The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

The Best Books for Understanding the Far Right “Constitutional Sheriff” Movement

Jessica Pishko Recommends 11 Essential Works on Extremism

By Jessica Pishko | September 19, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She refuses silence and crafts stories so searing they cannot be buried or ignored.”

By Book Marks | September 19, 2024

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

“Raft,” a Poem by Ted Kooser

By Ted Kooser | September 19, 2024

Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

By Diana Khoi Nguyen | September 19, 2024

Against Romance and Passion as Social and Literary Constructs

By Ron Rosenbaum | September 19, 2024

“The Girl Who Became a Rabbit,” a Poem by Emilie Menzel

“The Girl Who Became a Rabbit,” a Poem by Emilie Menzel

From the Book-length Poem "The Girl Who Became a Rabbit"

By Emilie Menzel | September 19, 2024

Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

Allen MacDuffie on Darwin and Cataclysmic Change

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 19, 2024

Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 19, 2024

How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

How Brooklyn’s Earliest Black Residents Found Empowerment and Solidarity in Their Diverse Community

Prithi Kanakamedala Explores the Little Known History of 19th-Century New York City

By Prithi Kanakamedala | September 18, 2024

The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

The Woman Who Invented “Dark Fantasy.” How Gertrude Barrows Bennett Popularized the Fantastic

Lisa Yaszek on the Woman Known as Francis Stevens, an Early Female Pioneer of American Genre Fiction

By Lisa Yaszek | September 18, 2024

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be

David Browne on Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the Transformative Creation of the Village Vanguard

By David Browne | September 18, 2024

Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey

Close Encounters of Animal Kind: On the Porous Urban Boundaries Between Predator and Prey

Christopher Brown Explores Our Complex Relationships With the Wild Creatures That Share Our Urban Space

By Christopher Brown | September 18, 2024

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