Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Lauren Groff on This Year's Winners and the "Infinitely Malleable, Gorgeously Economical, and Endlessly Surprising" Short Story Form

By Lauren Groff | April 24, 2023

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

The Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

Amanda Parrish Morgan on Claire Dederer, Mary Shelley, Rachel Yoder, and the Warped Self

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | April 24, 2023

What is <em>The Power</em> Trying to Say?

What is The Power Trying to Say?

Without the Novel’s Allegorical Framing, the New Adaptation Feels Like a Hollow Empowerment Fantasy

By Alexis Gunderson | April 24, 2023

Aleksandar Hemon on Sarajevo, Jerusalem, and the Political Power of “Macaronic” Language

Aleksandar Hemon on Sarajevo, Jerusalem, and the Political Power of “Macaronic” Language

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 24, 2023

On Smuggling a Book Into the Psych Ward

On Smuggling a Book Into the Psych Ward

Jonathan Rosen Enters a Friend’s Delusions Under the Pull of Shared History

By Jonathan Rosen | April 24, 2023

<em>Black Shakespeare</em>: Ian Smith on Systematic Whiteness and Transforming the Way We Interpret Shakespeare

Black Shakespeare: Ian Smith on Systematic Whiteness and Transforming the Way We Interpret Shakespeare

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 24, 2023

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“Equinox ‘75,” a Poem by Ursula Le Guin

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Sam Lee on the Musical Kinship Between Folk Music and Birdsong

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“Reversible Poem in Dishwater,” a Poem by Emily Lee Luan

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Andrew Porter on the Strange Nature of Short Stories Mirroring Each Other

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In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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Pattiann Rogers on the “Flicker” that Connects All Life in Her Poems

Pattiann Rogers on the “Flicker” that Connects All Life in Her Poems

Leslie Lindsay Talks to the Author of Flickering

By Leslie Lindsay | April 24, 2023

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