• Features

    Politics

    How American Politicians Learned to Lie to Voters

    By Gilda Daniels  November 2, 2020
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  November 2, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    A Friend Lost Too Soon, a Life That Roots and Branches On

    By Emergence Magazine  November 2, 2020
    First Draft

    Ken Bonert: The Regional Is Universal

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 2, 2020
    Incarceration

    On the Language of Nonviolence and the US Criminal Justice System

    By Michael Fischer  November 2, 2020
    The History of Literature

    George Orwell’s 1984 is Always Just Around the Corner

    By History of Literature  November 2, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Good News: Mary Ruefle Can’t Keep Up with All the Books Being Published, Either

    By How to Proceed   October 30, 2020
    Horror

    The 52 Best Draculas, Ranked

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 30, 2020
    Shirley Jackson

    Read Shirley Jackson’s Eerily Contemporary Letter About Fear

    By Literary Hub  October 30, 2020
    Fascism

    Lilly Wachowski: Refuse Fascism, at the Ballot Box and in the Street

    By Lilly Wachowski  October 30, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    Jenny Hval and Alexandra Kleeman Talk Magic Words, Witch Melodies, and Norwegian Black Metal Scene

    By Alexandra Kleeman  October 30, 2020
    horror films

    Wonder or Horror? On the Dark Side of Our Reverence for Nature

    By Tyler Malone  October 30, 2020
    Ghosts!

    How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

    By M Dressler  October 30, 2020
    Halloween

    A Brief History of the Creepiness of Human Bones

    By Roy A. Meals, MD  October 30, 2020
    Film Criticism

    Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

    By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2020
    Witches

    A Witch’s Rules of Matrimony

    By Lucile Scott  October 30, 2020
    Keen On

    Is the Republican Party a Party of Traitors?

    By Keen On  October 30, 2020
    Ghosts!

    Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

    By Claire Cronin  October 30, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    George Gascón on His LAPD Career and the Generational Harms of Policing

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 30, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Pete Souza on When Generosity of Spirit Reigned in Politics

    By The Literary Life  October 30, 2020
    New Books Network

    When It Comes to Royal Fiction, Don’t Sleep on the Courts of Eastern Europe

    By New Books Network  October 30, 2020
    New Books Network

    Why Shouldn’t California Just Secede?

    By New Books Network  October 30, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Tristan Strong Destroys the World by Kwame Mbalia, Read by Amir Abdullah

    By Behind the Mic   October 30, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    WATCH: Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror

    By The Antibody Reading Series  October 29, 2020
    Criticism

    Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
    First Novel

    By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
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