• Features

    Life in a Pandemic

    Bill Hayes Writing About a Completely Normal Evening in New York

    By Bill Hayes  September 4, 2020
    Keen On

    The Twilight of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism

    By Keen On  September 4, 2020
    In Memoriam

    William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life’s Smaller Moments

    By Sonny Brewer  September 4, 2020
    Poem

    “Be Holding”

    By Ross Gay  September 4, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On the Children’s Book So Bad, So Inauthentic… It Was Good?

    By NewberyTart   September 4, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Eric Weiner on Searching for Answers from Dead Philosophers

    By The Literary Life  September 4, 2020
    Bookable

    Gary Shteyngart and Paul LaFarge: There’s a Tornado Coming… Let’s Talk Craft

    By Bookable   September 4, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Why We Drive by Matthew B. Crawford, Read by Ron Butler

    By Behind the Mic   September 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Bible Is Far More Interesting to Read as a Literary Text Than a Literal One

    By New Books Network  September 4, 2020
    Poem

    Two Untitled Poems by
    Ben Mazer

    By Ben Mazer  September 4, 2020
    New Books Network

    Bryn Turnbull on the Woman Who Preceded Wallis Simpson

    By New Books Network  September 4, 2020
    Artists

    What Awaits Muses Who Outlive
    Their Usefulness?

    By Annalena McAfee  September 3, 2020
    On Race

    Joshua Bennett on the Fullness of Black Life in a Time of Siege

    By Jesse McCarthy  September 3, 2020
    Local Politics

    When Hunter S. Thompson
    Ran for Sheriff

    By David Wills  September 3, 2020
    Great Authors

    “Will I Come to a Miserable End?” Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

    By Jenny Erpenbeck  September 3, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Natasha Trethewey on Surviving the White Mind of the South

    By The Maris Review  September 3, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Megha Majumdar on Why Any of Us Write

    By So Many Damn Books  September 3, 2020
    Jazz

    Louis Armstrong’s Rapturous First Tour Through the American South

    By Ricky Riccardi  September 3, 2020
    On Translation

    On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

    By Carolina De Robertis  September 3, 2020
    Keen On

    Carl Hoffman: Conspiracy Theories Run Deep Through Trump’s Base

    By Keen On  September 3, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Introducing Language Keepers, the Story of Indigenous Language Survival in California

    By Emergence Magazine  September 3, 2020
    Reading Lists

    A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

    By Literary Hub  September 3, 2020
    New Books Network

    Nathan J. Kelly on America’s Inequality Trap

    By New Books Network  September 3, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Allure of the Paratroopers:
    A Reading from Those Devils in Baggy Pants

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 3, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Jenny Odell: There Is No Work Without Care and Maintenance

    By Just the Right Book   September 3, 2020
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