How Writing “Vengeful Fiction” Can Make You a Better Person

How Writing “Vengeful Fiction” Can Make You a Better Person

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on Finding Empathy in Writing and Putting Anger to Good Use

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | October 5, 2021

The New Climate Fiction: Grappling with the Weight of Collapse

The New Climate Fiction: Grappling with the Weight of Collapse

Emma Dries on the Limitations of Fragmentary Narrative to Portray a Fragmenting World

By Emma Dries | October 5, 2021

Dave Eggers on His Fight Against Big Data

Dave Eggers on His Fight Against Big Data

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 5, 2021

On Racial Injustice and the False Promise of Police Reforms

On Racial Injustice and the False Promise of Police Reforms

Derecka Purnell Unpacks the Drive to Seek Justice

By Derecka Purnell | October 5, 2021

Palindromes and Rooftop Iguanas: Readings by David Naimon, Victoria Buitron, and Aimee Bender

Palindromes and Rooftop Iguanas: Readings by David Naimon, Victoria Buitron, and Aimee Bender

Introducing Micro, a Podcast That Elevates Small Works with Big Voices

By Micro Podcast | October 5, 2021

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of What Storm, What Thunder

By Jane Ciabattari | October 5, 2021

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Elizabeth McCracken Reads Her Short Story “It’s Not You”

By Storybound | October 5, 2021

Nato Thompson on Approaching Art as a Life Project

By The Quarantine Tapes | October 5, 2021

How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America's Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

By Curtis Bunn | October 5, 2021

In Search of My Family’s Faroese Stories

In Search of My Family’s Faroese Stories

Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen on Grief and Finding One’s Culture

By Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen | October 5, 2021

<em>Literary Disco</em> Goes Back to School with Poet and Teacher Bree Rolfe

Literary Disco Goes Back to School with Poet and Teacher Bree Rolfe

On the Syllabus: Jamaica Kincaid, Roddy Doyle, and Assaf Gavron

By Literary Disco | October 5, 2021

<em>The Turnout</em> by Megan Abbott, Read by Cassandra Campbell

The Turnout by Megan Abbott, Read by Cassandra Campbell

A Dark, Compelling Tale of Family and Deception

By Behind the Mic | October 5, 2021

“Saturday”

“Saturday”

A Poem by Marcio Junqueira, trans. by Johnny Lorenz

By Marcio Junqueira | October 5, 2021

Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

Nadifa Mohamed on the Long, Strange Journey of Her Uncle Kettle

“My sense of belonging to Hargeisa, the city of my birth but not his, has dissipated in his absence.”

By Nadifa Mohamed | October 4, 2021

Notes From a Cairo Bookseller

Notes From a Cairo Bookseller

Nadia Wassef Reflects on Owning the First Modern Egyptian Bookstore of its Kind

By Nadia Wassef | October 4, 2021

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

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

A Balanced Reading List for Libra Season

By Emily Temple | October 4, 2021

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