• Features

    Poets

    Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt

    By Willard Spiegelman  February 28, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

    By Donal Ryan  February 28, 2023
    Keen On

    Kelly Yang on Roald Dahl, Ron De Santis and the New Culture Wars Over Kids’ Books

    By Keen On  February 28, 2023
    Pseudoscience

    Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

    By Sally Adee  February 28, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity, and Inter-Generational Trauma in Korea

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 28, 2023
    On Grief

    Finding Microjoys Between the Shadows of Grief and Loss

    By Cyndie Spiegel  February 28, 2023
    Write-minded

    Eden Boudreau on Memoirs That Risk Everything

    By Memoir Nation   February 28, 2023
    Lit Century

    Lucy Ferriss on Girlhood and Innocence in The Death of the Heart

    By Lit Century   February 28, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Ling Ma on Writing Short Stories: “You Can Let Them Simmer for Years”

    By I'm a Writer But   February 28, 2023
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of February

    By Book Marks  February 28, 2023
    Keen On

    Kathleen McLaughlin on the Plasma Industry Sucking the Blood of the American Poor

    By Keen On  February 28, 2023
    Ukraine

    When Russia Invaded Ukraine, My Family’s Past Became the Present

    By Megan Buskey  February 27, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

    By Aaron J. Leonard  February 27, 2023
    The Writing Life

    It Happened To Me: On Being Totally Unproductive at a Writing Residency

    By Alice Robb  February 27, 2023
    Covid-19

    Inside the Emergency Room on the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By Farzon A. Nahvi  February 27, 2023
    When I’m Not Writing

    A Stitch Between Reality and Imagination: Thao Thai on Sewing and Summoning Possibility

    By Thao Thai  February 27, 2023
    The Renaissance

    Sorry Michelangelo, Da Vinci Was the True Master of the Human Form in Art

    By Charles Freeman  February 27, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Lucy Jones on the Fascinatingly Weird Lifeforms of the Forest Floor

    By Emergence Magazine  February 27, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Talking to Biographer Carl Rollyson About the Life of William Faulkner

    By History of Literature  February 27, 2023
    First Draft

    Susan Griffin on Earning an Ending and How Writing is Akin to Carpentry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 27, 2023
    Ukraine

    “War Plants Paper Flowers.” New Ukrainian Poetry by Iya Kiva, Ostap Slyvynsky, and Halyna Kruk

    By Literary Hub  February 24, 2023
    What to Watch

    How a 26-Year-Old Steven Spielberg Made Jaws… and Nearly Lost His Career in the Process

    By Michael Schulman  February 24, 2023
    Classics

    Ancient Drama for Modern Readers: Top 5 Greek Plays to Read in Translation

    By Claire Heywood  February 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Nina Siegal on Dutch Moral Complicity in the Nazi Persecution of Holland’s Jews

    By Keen On  February 24, 2023
    Research

    Research I’d Rather Not Have Done: Pandemics Then and Now

    By Lynn Cullen  February 24, 2023
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