• Features

    Friendship

    The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

    By Francine Prose  August 23, 2021
    In Memoriam

    A Tribute to Roberto Calasso

    By Literary Hub  August 23, 2021
    Literary History

    How Reading and the Thirst for Knowledge is at the Heart of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    By Heather Cass White  August 23, 2021
    Grief

    My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

    By Merissa Nathan Gerson  August 23, 2021
    Novelists

    Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

    By Tobias Carroll  August 23, 2021
    Inspiration

    The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

    By Louis Edwards  August 23, 2021
    First Draft

    Edward Hirsch on the Poet’s Celebration of Grief

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 23, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Laura Marsh on the Enduring Appeal of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair

    By History of Literature  August 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Bill Steigerwald on Life Undercover as a Black Man in the Jim Crow South

    By Keen On  August 23, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter, Read by a Full Cast

    By Behind the Mic   August 23, 2021
    The Longest Year: 2020+

    Behind Closed Doors: Documenting the Lives of the Elders in a Time of Plague

    By Sari Botton and Alexey Yurenev  August 20, 2021
    Experimental Fiction

    How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell Infinite Jest

    By Rachel Greenwald Smith  August 20, 2021
    Music

    Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

    By John Lurie  August 20, 2021
    Astrophysics

    The Great Cosmological Debate of the Twentieth Century

    By Paul Halpern  August 20, 2021
    Cars

    Meet the Real-Life Inspiration Behind “Mr. Toad”

    By Tom Standage  August 20, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

    By Corinne Segal  August 20, 2021
    Motherhood

    Love Warriors: Women of Color Doulas in a Time of Crisis

    By Jennifer C. Nash  August 20, 2021
    The War on Terror

    Waiting in Darkness: My Time At Guantánamo

    By Mansoor Adayfi  August 20, 2021
    Open Source

    Into the Feel Tank: Remembering Lauren Berlant and Her Concept of “Cruel Optimism”

    By Open Source  August 20, 2021
    Keen On

    How (and Why) to Engage with Science Deniers

    By Keen On  August 20, 2021
    Fathers and Sons

    When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

    By Jonathan Wells  August 20, 2021
    New Books Network

    Daniel Shapiro on Living Through a Spouse’s Terminal Illness

    By New Books Network  August 20, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim, Read by Suzie Yeung

    By Behind the Mic   August 20, 2021
    American History

    “Americans Are Bad at History.” At the Fault Lines of Memory and Propaganda

    By Patrick Nathan  August 19, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

    By The Maris Review  August 19, 2021
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