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Tayari Jones on Speaking in Metaphor

Tayari Jones on Speaking in Metaphor

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | March 9, 2026

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

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

Featuring Saba Sams, Jazmine Ulloa, Jordy Rosenberg, and more

By Book Marks | March 6, 2026

Benjamin Hale on How to Expand a Magazine Article Into a Book

Benjamin Hale on How to Expand a Magazine Article Into a Book

Navigating Structure, in Fiction and Nonfiction

By Benjamin Hale | March 6, 2026

On the Rise of <em>Pitchfork</em> and 21st-Century Music Criticism

On the Rise of Pitchfork and 21st-Century Music Criticism

Ronen Givony on the Early Days of Music Reviewing

By Ronen Givony | March 6, 2026

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day  

8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day  

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Librarians Who’ve Inspired Her

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | March 6, 2026

Life on the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

Life on the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

Laura Mauldin Shares Stories of a Vanishing Safety Net

By Laura Mauldin | March 6, 2026

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“French Walk,” a Poem by Anna Lena Phillips Bell

By Anna Lena Phillips Bell | March 6, 2026

Larry Sultan on the Role of Ambiguity in Art

By Larry Sultan | March 6, 2026

Jayson Greene on Uncanny Grief and Uncanny Novels

By Thresholds | March 6, 2026

Introducing Dirt Books, a Publishing Imprint For the 22nd Century

Introducing Dirt Books, a Publishing Imprint For the 22nd Century

“The ideal Dirt Books title is a story that could not be told any other way.”

By Brittany Allen | March 5, 2026

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children

Maris Kreizman on a Proposed Bill That Could Outlaw Books By or About LGBTQ+ People

By Maris Kreizman | March 5, 2026

On Shirley Jackson’s <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> Though the Lens of Childrearing

On Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House Though the Lens of Childrearing

Lesley Jenike Considers What Motherhood Can Reveal About the Self

By Lesley Jenike | March 5, 2026

Language as Resistance: Camonghne Felix on the Liberatory Potential of Poetry

Language as Resistance: Camonghne Felix on the Liberatory Potential of Poetry

“We can go to poetry to mark the design of the world we see and the world we desire to conjure.”

By Camonghne Felix | March 5, 2026

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?

Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?

Stephen Harding on the Modernist Poet and His Fascist Politics

By Stephen Harding | March 5, 2026

The Fight for Economic Justice and the Pathway Out of Poverty

The Fight for Economic Justice and the Pathway Out of Poverty

Nicole Lynn Lewis on How Expanding Educational Opportunities Can Help Eradicate Poverty

By Nicole Lynn Lewis | March 5, 2026

“The Terrible Years.” <br>A Poem by Carolina Ebeid

“The Terrible Years.”
A Poem by Carolina Ebeid

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By Carolina Ebeid | March 5, 2026

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