• Features

    First Draft

    Jill Bialosky on Mentoring Young Women Through Her Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 19, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Haven by Emma Donoghue, Read by Aidan Kelly

    By Behind the Mic   September 19, 2022
    Write-minded

    A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

    By Write-minded   September 19, 2022
    WWII

    When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

    By Tanya Paperny  September 16, 2022
    Books In Translation

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2022
    Poetry

    “Cagnes Sur Mer 1950.” A Poem by Jorie Graham

    By Jorie Graham  September 16, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  September 16, 2022
    Recap

    Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

    By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

    By Thomas C. Foster  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

    By The Literary Life  September 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Three Classic Movies to Help Understand Our Conspiratorial Present

    By Andrew Keen  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

    By Elissa Bassist  September 16, 2022
    Poverty

    Learning the Culture of Blame as a Child at the State Welfare Office

    By David Ambroz  September 16, 2022
    Poetry

    “A Romantic Poem” by John Koethe

    By John Koethe  September 16, 2022
    World War II

    Fictionalizing the Stories of Two Women Who Fought to Save Jewish Children in World War II-Era Europe

    By Kristin Beck  September 16, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva, Read by Edoardo Ballerini

    By Behind the Mic   September 16, 2022
    Mental health

    How Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther Led to a Rare Suicide Cluster

    By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras  September 15, 2022
    American Politics

    On the Political Weaponization of Words: From “Miscegenation” to “Groomer”

    By Bruce Handy  September 15, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    Human Behavior

    Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases

    By Woo-kyoung Ahn  September 15, 2022
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Rachel Aviv: Why It’s Difficult to Trust Your Own Experiences of Mental Illness

    By The Maris Review  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    Espionage

    The True Stories of the Women on the Front Lines of America’s Fledgling Intelligence Services

    By Nathalia Holt  September 15, 2022
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