A Marionette in the Milky Way: On Finding Your Way Into the Story You Want to Tell

A Marionette in the Milky Way: On Finding Your Way Into the Story You Want to Tell

Lindsey Drager Considers Impermanence, Finality and the Forces of the Universe in Fictional Narratives

By Lindsey Drager | August 16, 2024

Venturing Inside the Mouth of the Tiny-But-Mighty Shrew

Venturing Inside the Mouth of the Tiny-But-Mighty Shrew

Bill Schutt Considers the Perfect Cheesy Horror Movie Creature

By Bill Schutt | August 16, 2024

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

Monica Cardenas on a Literary Antidote to Society's Oppressive Prescription for Motherhood

By Monica Cardenas | August 15, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract.”

By Book Marks | August 15, 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 15, 2024

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

The Author of “Rip Tide” on Surviving the Chaos of Publishing

By Colleen McKeegan | August 15, 2024

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To Dream of Beauty: On the Possibility of Afrofuturism as a Solution to Climate Catastrophe

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What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

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Words of No Syllables: How Animals Bond With Their Human Caretakers

Words of No Syllables: How Animals Bond With Their Human Caretakers

Rosamund Young on Caring for Cows, Sheep and Other Four-Legged Friends

By Rosamund Young | August 14, 2024

The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

Theodore H. Schwartz Shares the Story of a Patient with GBM, the Supervillain of Malignant Tumors

By Theodore H. Schwartz | August 14, 2024

“A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

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Snowden Wright Digs Into the “Exploded View” of Watson’s Work

By Snowden Wright | August 14, 2024

How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

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Sofia Samatar on Balancing Self-Compartmentalization With the Joy of Creation

By Sofia Samatar | August 14, 2024

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Sadiya Ansari Considers the Impact and Legacy of Displacement After Partition

By Sadiya Ansari | August 14, 2024

Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

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Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Navid Sinaki on Finding His Voice as a Young, Queer Iranian Immigrant

By Navid Sinaki | August 13, 2024

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