• Features

    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Elissa Washuta on Michael Lewis, Tommy Orange, and Indigenous Literature

    By Book Marks  March 23, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    In Love by Amy Bloom, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   March 23, 2022
    Shame

    How Public Shaming Helps Society Maintain Its Norms and Ethical Standards

    By Cathy O'Neil  March 22, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    Karen Joy Fowler on Decentering John Wilkes Booth in a Novel About His Family

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 22, 2022
    Immigration stories

    The Goalposts Are Always Moving: What It Means to “Become” American

    By Julissa Arce  March 22, 2022
    Ancient Rome

    How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

    By Barry Strauss  March 22, 2022
    Lit Century

    How Do We Live with the Knowledge That We’ll Die?

    By Lit Century   March 22, 2022
    Sex

    How Does Language During Sex Translate Across Cultures?

    By Polly Barton  March 22, 2022
    AWP

    72 Hours in Philly: The Writers’ Guide to AWP 2022

    By Literary Hub  March 22, 2022
    The Writing Life

    When People Assume Your Fiction is About Your Life

    By Alejandro Varela  March 22, 2022
    2022 Oscars

    Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Belfast

    By Literary Hub  March 22, 2022
    What to Watch

    With Belfast, Kenneth Branagh Hits Peak Irresistible

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 22, 2022
    Life in a Pandemic

    How the Absence of a Funeral Makes Death So Much Harder For the Living

    By Olivia Clare Friedman  March 22, 2022
    2022 Oscars

    Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Dune

    By Literary Hub  March 22, 2022
    Micro

    Golden Girls and Dinosaurs: Readings by Rodrick Minor, Anna Cabe, and Tara Campbell

    By Micro   March 22, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear, Read by Orlagh Cassidy

    By Behind the Mic   March 22, 2022
    On Poetry

    “I wish you a sexy, dangerous, jazz-shaped immortality.“ Diane Seuss’s Advice for Life as a Writer

    By Diane Seuss  March 21, 2022
    2022 Oscars

    Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Drive My Car

    By Literary Hub  March 21, 2022
    2022 Oscars

    Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked King Richard

    By Literary Hub  March 21, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Why We Need More Writers Practicing Medicine (and Vice Versa)

    By Xi Chen  March 21, 2022
    Coming of Age

    Every Coming-of-Age Story is an Apocalypse Story

    By Andrew DeYoung  March 21, 2022
    Voting

    A Call to Southern Writers: Register People to Vote at Literary Events

    By Belle Boggs, Robin Davidson and Jill McCorkle  March 21, 2022
    Censorship

    The Subtle Authoritarianism of Southeast Asia’s Wealthiest City-State

    By Jeevan Vasagar  March 21, 2022
    Southern literature

    On the Fever Dream Brilliance of Harry Crews

    By Kevin Wilson  March 21, 2022
    Mythology

    The Mermaid, C’est Moi: Rewriting the Story of a Universal Myth

    By Monique Roffey  March 21, 2022
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