Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

Marcia DeSanctis Tries to Reconcile Her Love of Russian Lit with Putin’s Ascendancy

By Marcia DeSanctis | May 2, 2022

Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

“He wanted to write, to give himself over to pure leisure, to the search.”

By Alejandro Zambra | May 2, 2022

Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

On Focusing on Poets with “Decades of Lived Experience”

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2022

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

A Quiet Reply to a Life Cut Short: After a Profound Loss, How to Honor the Dead

Elisha Cooper on Coming to Terms with What Killed His Brother

By Elisha Cooper | May 2, 2022

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

What Animals Can Show Us About More Meaningfully Encountering the Wider World

Sy Montgomery on the Lessons of the Natural World

By Sy Montgomery | May 2, 2022

May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Stack up your summer TBR with New Titles from Emma Straub, Holly Black, and Nghi Vo

By Book Marks | May 2, 2022

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Love is Space: Notes on Marriage and Creativity

By Andrea Bajani | May 2, 2022

Robin Wall Kimmerer on What Mosses Can Teach Us About Persisting Amid Climate Change

By Emergence Magazine | May 2, 2022

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

By Rosalyn Story | May 2, 2022

What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 2, 2022

<em>Sea of Tranquility</em> by Emily St. John Mandel, Read by John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, and Kirsten Potter

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, Read by John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, and Kirsten Potter

A Mesmerizing Listening Experience

By Behind the Mic | May 2, 2022

Second Act: How Edith Scott Saavedra Went from International Lawyer to Debut Novelist

Second Act: How Edith Scott Saavedra Went from International Lawyer to Debut Novelist

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 2, 2022

"Structure is Everything." Keith O'Brien on Structuring a Nonfiction Narrative

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 2, 2022

Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing

Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing

"I needed some stronger record of what I was doing"

By Alexander Chee | April 29, 2022

Rotten to the Core: Why Twitter and Elon Musk Deserve Each Other

Rotten to the Core: Why Twitter and Elon Musk Deserve Each Other

Andrew Keen on What $44 Billion Gets You These Days

By Andrew Keen | April 29, 2022

Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

“Gradually, I began to discover that I was on to more than I had thought.”

By Robert M. Pirsig and Wendy K. Pirsig | April 29, 2022

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