After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on the New Normal For Global Population Growth and Decline

By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso | August 8, 2025

A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on <em>Bomarzo</em>

A Fantastical Odyssey Through Renaissance Italy: Álvaro Enrigue on Bomarzo

“Mujica Lainez’s Duke of Bomarzo is a lantern that illuminates... our tenebrous but also brilliant little lives.”

By Álvaro Enrigue | August 8, 2025

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s <em>Metamorphosis</em> as <em>The Transformation</em>

The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation

Mark Harman Digs into the History and Linguistic Choices of Translating an Uncanny Classic

By Mark Harman | August 8, 2025

Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

Jessica Gross on Writing a New York Novel as an Ex-New Yorker

How to Get Back in a New York State of Mind

By Jessica Gross | August 8, 2025

The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

Greg Mitchell on William W. Watt’s Experience in the Aftermath of Nuclear Devastation

By Greg Mitchell | August 8, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 7, 2025

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next

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Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

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Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

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

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Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

Carl Phillips and Aditi Machado Feel Like Radically Different Poets

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | August 7, 2025

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

By Khadijah Queen | August 6, 2025

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

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Martha Barnette Explores the Shared Proto-Indo-European Origins of a Diverse Group of Modern Languages

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On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

Elizabeth Cook Breaks Down the “Uncertainty, Disrespect, and Bullying” of the Federal Government

By Elizabeth Kaye Cook | August 6, 2025

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