Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Rachel Gordan on the Epistolary Relationships Maintained by the Author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

By Rachel Gordan | January 29, 2024

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Danger of Talking Openly About Palestinian Pain

By Aisha Abdel Gawad | January 29, 2024

Ilyon Woo on Not Trying to Force It

Ilyon Woo on Not Trying to Force It

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 29, 2024

Janet Fitch on Writing With All The Senses

Janet Fitch on Writing With All The Senses

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | January 29, 2024

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

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

Featuring Kaveh Akbar, Frantz Fanon, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and More

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Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

Alec Wilkinson Introduces Maxwell’s Speech at Smith College in 1955

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So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

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More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

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“Self-Portrait as Sister.” A Poem by Ae Hee Lee

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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“The ingenious doctor and impassioned activist was every bit as much a victim of empire as the patients he worked to heal.”

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The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

By Adam Shatz | January 25, 2024

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

Odie Henderson on the Making of “Blacula” and the Broader History of Blaxploitation Cinema

By Odie Henderson | January 25, 2024

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners

By József Debreczeni | January 25, 2024

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 25, 2024

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