• Features

    Black History

    The Fearless Truthtelling of Harriet Ann Jacobs

    By Tiya Miles  March 29, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Reckoning with Nabokov’s Classic, Controversial Lolita

    By History of Literature  March 29, 2021
    Diaries

    A Tale of Three Diaries: On Destroyed Landscapes and Lost Narratives

    By Erika Kobayashi  March 29, 2021
    Public Intellectuals

    A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
    Edward Said

    By Timothy Brennan  March 29, 2021
    First Draft

    Dantiel W. Moniz on Imposter Syndrome and the Morbidity
    of Girlhood

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 29, 2021
    Medical history

    Kidneys, Twins, and Pathological Optimism: The Story of the First Successful Organ Transplant

    By Brandy Schillace  March 29, 2021
    Poetry

    “The Perseverance” by Raymond Antrobus

    By Raymond Antrobus  March 29, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear, Read by Orlagh Cassidy

    By Behind the Mic   March 29, 2021
    Nature Writing

    On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

    By David Quammen  March 26, 2021
    Literary History

    When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

    By Alex Christofi  March 26, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: NOON

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 26, 2021
    How to Proceed

    Deborah Levy on the Retrospective Mood of the Pandemic

    By How to Proceed   March 26, 2021
    Islam

    Muslim America is Not a Monolith

    By Asma T. Uddin  March 26, 2021
    Keen On

    On Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I, and the Age of Empires

    By Keen On  March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    Close Reading

    Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

    By Daniel Heller-Roazen  March 26, 2021
    Translation

    Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation

    By Peter Cole  March 26, 2021
    Well-Versed

    Translating Tove Ditlevsen: ‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’

    By Well-Versed   March 26, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Celebrating the 2021 Audie Awards: Best Humor Audiobook

    By Behind the Mic   March 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Danielle Evans, Megan Giddings, and Deesha Philyaw at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  March 26, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Celebrating a Year of The Quarantine Tapes

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 26, 2021
    The Literary Life

    P. Scott Cunningham on Miami’s Poetry Scene

    By The Literary Life  March 26, 2021
    New Books Network

    How Long Are We Really Going to Distinguish Between Humans, Cyborgs, and AI?

    By New Books Network  March 26, 2021
    Travel

    Pandemic Diversions: On the Modern Day Myths and Freaky Folktales of The Siberian Times

    By Farah Abdessamad  March 25, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

    By Amy Brady  March 25, 2021
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