• Features

    On Writing

    Helen Oyeyemi Finds the World of Her Novel on the Train

    By Kristin Iversen  April 7, 2021
    Marginalia

    Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

    By Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia  April 7, 2021
    Scams

    Wet Hot American Scammer: Revisiting the Magnificent Failure of the Fyre Festival

    By Gabrielle Bluestone  April 7, 2021
    Inspiration

    On the Bruce Springsteen Song That Reinvigorated My Writing

    By Natalie Standiford  April 7, 2021
    Thresholds

    Fariha Róisín on Learning to Care Less About the Publishing World’s Rules

    By Thresholds   April 7, 2021
    Close Reading

    On the Role of Zen Buddhism in the Stories of J.D. Salinger

    By Avram Alpert  April 7, 2021
    Pop Culture

    The Gospel of Neo: How The Matrix Paved the Way for the Marvel Universe

    By Kim Taylor-Foster  April 7, 2021
    Writing Life

    On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

    By Sanjena Sathian  April 7, 2021
    Keen On

    How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

    By Keen On  April 7, 2021
    Poetry

    “Breath of Brief Syllables” by Ivana Bodrožic

    By Ivana Bodrožić  April 7, 2021
    The Literary Salon

    Lucy Holland Reads an Excerpt from Sistersong

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  April 7, 2021
    Otherppl

    Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 7, 2021
    Reading Women

    Why Adults Should Read More Middle Grade Books

    By Reading Women  April 7, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson, Read by David Sadzin

    By Behind the Mic   April 7, 2021
    Indie Bookstores

    The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

    By Erik Hoel  April 6, 2021
    Astrophysics

    If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come
    Out Again?

    By Michio Kaku  April 6, 2021
    Masculinity

    How Tony Soprano Inaugurated a New (and Raw) Version of Masculinity

    By Susan Bordo  April 6, 2021
    Lit Century

    On Gloria Naylor’s Refusal to Look Away from the Pain of a Mother’s Grief

    By Lit Century   April 6, 2021
    Black Community

    Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

    By Tara Betts  April 6, 2021
    Reading Lists

    7 Books That Invite Readerly Exploration, Adventure, and Discovery

    By Steven Hall  April 6, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Sven Birkerts on the Afterlife
    of Reading

    By The Quarantine Tapes  April 6, 2021
    Marriage

    Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

    By Gina Frangello  April 6, 2021
    WWII

    Uncovering the Stories of the Jewish Women Resistance Fighters in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    By Judy Batalion  April 6, 2021
    Keen On

    How Absolute Free Speech Upholds White Male Supremacy

    By Keen On  April 6, 2021
    Women Writers

    Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on First Drafts and Battling Writer’s Block

    By Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney  April 6, 2021
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