• Features

    Creative Nonfiction

    The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre

    By Lee Gutkind  December 13, 2021
    Big Table

    Kyle Beachy on the Mystery Origins of Skateboarding

    By Big Table  December 13, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   December 13, 2021
    The Hub

    On Hora de Clarice, read an excerpt from Clarice Lispector’s new stories for children.

    By Literary Hub  December 10, 2021
    Criticism

    On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

    By David Kirby  December 10, 2021
    Adaptations

    Could Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley Use More Tricks Up Its Sleeve?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 10, 2021
    What to Watch

    “Lemon, It’s Wednesday.” On the Legacy of 30 Rock

    By Mike Roe  December 10, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2021
    Adaptations

    Prayers for the Stolen: How Two Artists Portray the Violence of Human Trafficking in Mexico

    By Jennifer Clement  December 10, 2021
    Open Source

    “How Did We Get Stuck?” David Wengrow on Imagining Alternatives To Our Current Systems

    By Open Source  December 10, 2021
    Cities

    Time Is Water: On the Past, Present, and Looming Future of Venice

    By Marco Magini, Paolo Nelli, Giorgia Tolfo, and Maddalena Vatti  December 10, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Valerie Miles on the Craft of Curating Translators

    By The Literary Life  December 10, 2021
    Dance

    Puncturing a Dream: On the Dark-Edged Fantasy of the Ballerina and Traditional Femininity

    By Rachel Kapelke-Dale  December 10, 2021
    Keen On

    Jonathan Karl on the Aftermath of the Trump Presidency

    By Keen On  December 10, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Paul Mason on How to Stop Fascism

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 10, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

    By Cara Blue Adams  December 10, 2021
    New Books Network

    Elliot Ackerman on Exploring US-China Relations in His New Book

    By New Books Network  December 10, 2021
    Keen On

    David Cay Johnston on Donald Trump and the Fleecing of America

    By Keen On  December 10, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Natalie Naudus

    By Behind the Mic   December 10, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Searching for the Sacred on a
    Planet in Crisis

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  December 9, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 9, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood

    By Mira Ptacin  December 9, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Stephen Graham Jones on the Archetypes of a Slasher Narrative

    By The Maris Review  December 9, 2021
    Opera

    On Opera’s Indisputable Rules of Gravity

    By Matthew Aucoin  December 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Jay Parini on His Encounter with Jorge Luis Borges

    By Keen On  December 9, 2021
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