• Features

    Write-minded

    Josh Cook on the Behind the Scenes of Selling Books

    By Write-minded   June 3, 2024
    Reading Lists

    May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  May 31, 2024
    Sharks

    What It’s Like to Encounter a Shark When You’re Sailing Alone on the Open Ocean

    By Richard J. King  May 31, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

    By AudioFile Magazine  May 31, 2024
    craft advice

    Between Languages: Yukiko Tominaga on Writing in English and Japanese

    By Yukiko Tominaga  May 31, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Think Most Short Stories Are Glorified Therapy Sessions: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 30, 2024
    Book Covers

    The 14 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  May 30, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 30, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jonny Diamond on His Mother and Alice Munro

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 30, 2024
    On Translation

    Literary Catharsis: Jenna Tang on Translating Lin Yi-Han’s Only Novel, Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise

    By Jenna Tang  May 30, 2024
    White Nationalism

    Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

    By R. Derek Black  May 30, 2024
    Cancer

    What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

    By Graham Caveney  May 30, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Cass Sunstein on How to Become Famous

    By History of Literature  May 30, 2024
    Summer reading

    18 New Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  May 29, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   May 29, 2024
    Colonialism

    “Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

    By Robert G. Parkinson  May 29, 2024
    Reading Lists

    The Narrative Pleasures of Social Discomfort: A Reading List of School Reunion Stories

    By Elise Juska  May 29, 2024
    Queer Literature

    A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

    By Pedro Lemebel  May 29, 2024
    Family History

    Eternal Solace: Eve J. Chung on Tradition, Family and Mourning in Taiwan

    By Eve J. Chung  May 29, 2024
    Trauma

    Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

    By KB Brookins  May 29, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello on Comedy Partnership

    By Talk Easy  May 29, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Doreen St. Félix on Using Pop Culture to Consider Society

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 28, 2024
    Publishing

    When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves

    By Sara B. Franklin  May 28, 2024
    Sex Scenes

    You’ll Need More Than That Reverse Cowgirl: The Craft of Writing (Actually) Good Sex Scenes

    By Yael van der Wouden  May 28, 2024
    Creativity

    Art as Inspiration: How Collage Can Help Create Compelling Characters

    By Emma Copley Eisenberg  May 28, 2024
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