• Features

    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
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of October

    By Emily Temple  October 29, 2020
    Protest

    Jaywalking in a Dictatorship: What We Risk For Justice, From the US to Belarus

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 29, 2020
    Biography

    A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

    By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
    Poetry

    The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

    By Duncan Wu  October 29, 2020
    Work Diaries

    The Weird Underbelly of Tech Writing in Silicon Valley

    By Lulu Dewey  October 29, 2020
    Letters Home

    Dear Vote, or Why This Election Day I’m Coming Out of the Boiler Room

    By Monica Youn  October 29, 2020
    The Writing Life

    The Book That Brought Writers’ Fears and Self-Doubt
    Into the Open

    By Literary Hub  October 29, 2020
    Keen On

    How New York’s Leaders Enabled Trump All the Way to the Presidency

    By Keen On  October 29, 2020
    On Poetry

    On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

    By Nicholas McDowell  October 29, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code

    By Just the Right Book   October 29, 2020
    Migrations

    Please Don’t Feed the Gringos: The US-Mexico Divide

    By Claudio Lomnitz  October 29, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Why So Few Messerschmitt 109s Survived WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 29, 2020
    Change Lab

    Kevin Bethune on Realizing Dreams Through Design

    By Change Lab  October 29, 2020
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