The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s “Box Step”

The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s “Box Step”

On Undermining the “Status Quo of the Literary Weird.”

By Ann Beattie | June 15, 2023

How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

Deborah Willis on the Existential Contradictions of Writing While Our Planet Is Imperiled

By Deborah Willis | June 15, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"An almost violent kind of achievement: a writer knifing forward, slicing open a new terrain"

By Book Marks | June 15, 2023

Indulging in the Lightness of <em>American Born Chinese</em> is Like Escaping Into a World We Haven’t Built Yet

Indulging in the Lightness of American Born Chinese is Like Escaping Into a World We Haven’t Built Yet

Yao Xiao on the Disney+ Adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s Graphic Novel

By Yao Xiao | June 15, 2023

From Servant to Sidekick: The “Black Friend,” Then and Now

From Servant to Sidekick: The “Black Friend,” Then and Now

Aisha Harris Reflects on Racial Representation in Popular Culture

By Aisha Harris | June 15, 2023

What 300 Hours of Interviewing Musicians Taught Chris Payne

What 300 Hours of Interviewing Musicians Taught Chris Payne

The Author of Reflects on the Oral History of Emo Music

By Chris Payne | June 15, 2023

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After Prince Charming: Why We Need Stories That Center Female Friendships

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A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz

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Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film

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Mattie Lubchansky on Libertarianism and the Humongous Asterisk of Vegas

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In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 15, 2023

Simone Stolzoff on How to Reclaim Our Life From Work

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 15, 2023

Hal Hershfield on How to Escape the Tyranny of the Present

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Ani Kayode Reads from <em>And Then He Sang a Lullaby</em>

Ani Kayode Reads from And Then He Sang a Lullaby

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | June 15, 2023

On the Joy of Literary Acceptance (and the Freedom of Rejection)

On the Joy of Literary Acceptance (and the Freedom of Rejection)

Amy Grace Loyd Takes Stock of All the Yes’s and No’s

By Amy Grace Loyd | June 14, 2023

How Colorado Became Ground Zero For Hemp Production

How Colorado Became Ground Zero For Hemp Production

Finn Murphy on the Growth of a New Cash Crop in the Mountain West

By Finn Murphy | June 14, 2023

Revisiting the Mental Health Fallout from the Unprecedented Horror of the First World War

Revisiting the Mental Health Fallout from the Unprecedented Horror of the First World War

Charles Glass on the Epidemic of Shell Shock

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