• Features

    Graphic Novels

    Two Friends Unexpectedly Fall in Love in the Big Apple

    By Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki  September 8, 2023
    New Books Network

    Em X. Liu on Putting Hamlet in a Sci-Fi Lab

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Kai Bird on Joining Martin Sherwin to Write Oppenheimer’s Biography

    By The Literary Life  September 8, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  September 8, 2023
    Memoirs

    Porochista Khakpour on the Unrelatable Brilliance of Alison Rose’s Better Than Sane

    By Porochista Khakpour  September 7, 2023
    Why I Write

    James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

    By James Ellroy  September 7, 2023
    Indian Literature

    A Distinct Medium: How English Became a South Asian Literary Language

    By Liesl Schwabe  September 7, 2023
    Boarding School

    A New Era for Boarding School Literature

    By Emma Staffaroni  September 7, 2023
    Chefs

    Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

    By Brendan Shay Basham  September 7, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Changeling Brings a Genre-Bending Fable of Family to the Screen

    By Rebecca Ackermann  September 7, 2023
    Writing Advice

    Acting Out a Life: How to Write Novels About Real People

    By Gill Paul  September 7, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Myriam Gurba is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 7, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 7, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Stacey Mei Yan Fong on Doing What You Want in Your Own Kitchen

    By So Many Damn Books  September 7, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Elise Loehnen on the Seven Deadly Sins

    By Just the Right Book   September 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Myriam Gurba on Writing the Visceral

    By The Maris Review  September 7, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 7, 2023
    Reading List

    25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 6, 2023
    Money Matters

    “Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

    By Yiyun Li  September 6, 2023
    Diaries

    A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

    By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
    Lyric Essays

    Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

    By Hugh Ryan  September 6, 2023
    Criticism

    Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

    By Safiya Sinclair  September 6, 2023
    Poem

    “All Souls,” a Poem by Saskia Hamilton

    By Saskia Hamilton  September 6, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   September 6, 2023
    Vacations

    “Out of Time’s Monotone”: The Literary Life of the French Riviera

    By Jonathan Miles  September 6, 2023
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