• Features

    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: An Evening of Genre- and Gender-Fluid magic with Grace Lavery and Elif Batuman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 17, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Award is the Book: Randall Mann on Poetry Awards, Contests, and Diversity

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 17, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Why Julia May Jonas Didn’t Name Her Main Character

    By The Maris Review  February 17, 2022
    Otherppl

    Sheila Heti on Feeling Estranged from the Facts of Existence

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 17, 2022
    Dance

    The Creation of Yourself: On the Flow and Fugue of Dance

    By Olivia Campbell  February 17, 2022
    Chinese Literature

    What Is China Reading Right Now?

    By Megan Walsh  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Angela Stent on How Putin Created a Paranoid and Polarized World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Indigenous History

    How Mary Jane Drips Barnes Protected Indigenous Family Land

    By Anne F. Hyde  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    David Robert Grimes on How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2022
    Poetry

    “Cottman Avenue House Party”

    By Brian Tierney  February 17, 2022
    Exile

    Surviving the Abuses of Life in America

    By Tiffanie Drayton  February 17, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Family Business by S.J. Rozan, Read by Emily Woo Zeller

    By Behind the Mic   February 17, 2022
    Criticism

    Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

    By Anthony Domestico  February 16, 2022
    Thresholds

    “Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

    By Thresholds   February 16, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

    By Book Marks  February 16, 2022
    Vikings

    Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

    By Bernd Brunner  February 16, 2022
    Classics

    How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

    By Erin Morgenstern  February 16, 2022
    Motherhood

    Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

    By Mary Kuryla  February 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
    Poetry

    A Poem by Ben Estes

    By Ben Estes  February 16, 2022
    Libraries

    American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

    By Ilan Stavans  February 16, 2022
    Harlem Renaissance

    On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

    By Morgan Jerkins  February 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn’t Have the Answer

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
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