• Features

    Keen On

    Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

    By Keen On  November 14, 2022
    Big Pharma

    Patrick Radden Keefe on the Opioid Crisis, the Sacklers, and the Unsavory Game of Philanthropic Reputation Laundering

    By Patrick Radden Keefe  November 14, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    Part Armor and Part Theater: Kyle Lucia Wu on Curating Sartorial Courage

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  November 14, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

    By Emergence Magazine  November 14, 2022
    Relationships

    Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

    By Chip Livingston  November 14, 2022
    Language

    Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning

    By Ben Yagoda  November 14, 2022
    Poetry

    Su Cho on Beginning Her Poetic Journey

    By Su Cho  November 14, 2022
    Midsummer

    Dorthe Nors Spends the Shortest Night of the Year on Denmark’s North Sea Coast

    By Dorthe Nors  November 14, 2022
    Illustrations

    Overhead at Literary Speed Dating: Scenes from the Center for Fiction

    By Kathleen Radigan  November 14, 2022
    Write-minded

    David Yoon on Writing Racial Dynamics in YA Fiction

    By Memoir Nation   November 14, 2022
    University Presses

    This Year’s University Press Week Highlights Work on Race, Religion, War, and More

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2022
    Writer's block

    Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer’s Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

    By Matthew Quick  November 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Super Unhero: Vladimir Putin, the Accidental Czar, Imagined Graphically

    By Keen On  November 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Ross Gay: “It’s Never Been the Institutions, It’s Always Been Our Neighbor.”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 14, 2022
    Audiobook Break

    Listen to Chapters 25 and 26 of Dracula

    By Audiobook Break  November 14, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson, Read by Jason Watkins

    By Behind the Mic   November 14, 2022
    The Sea

    A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

    By Alan G. Jamieson  November 11, 2022
    Astrophysics

    How Human Curiosity Unlocked the Scientific Secrets of the Universe

    By Brian Thomas Swimme  November 11, 2022
    Soccer

    How Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi Became Superstars On and Off the Field

    By Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg  November 11, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Christopher Isherwood on What Writers Can Learn from Theater

    By Christopher Isherwood  November 11, 2022
    Bikes

    “Effortlessly Channeling Creative Epiphanies.” On a Lifelong Love of Cycling

    By Tree Abraham  November 11, 2022
    Essays

    Alexander Chee on the Perpetual Importance of the Essay

    By Steve Wieberg  November 11, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 11, 2022
    Black Girlhood

    The Trauma and Violence That Black Women and Girls Endure on the Corners

    By Shanita Hubbard  November 11, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Full Disclosure: Meghan J. Ward on Marriage, Motherhood, and Weighing the Truth in Memoir

    By Meghan J. Ward  November 11, 2022
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