• Features

    The History of Literature

    Why It’s Worth Reading T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Even When It’s a Slog)

    By History of Literature  September 8, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Language Keepers: Talking to the Last Fluent Speaker of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 8, 2020
    New Books Network

    Matt Yglesias Makes the Case for More Americans

    By New Books Network  September 8, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Travels Through the Homeland: On Being Isolated From One’s Mother Tongue

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   September 8, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

    By Behind the Mic   September 8, 2020
    Keen On

    Jonathan Karl: Front Row at the Trump Show

    By Keen On  September 7, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Read by Robin Miles

    By Behind the Mic   September 7, 2020
    Poets in Conversation

    The Case Against Nostalgia:
    A Conversation with Henri Cole

    By David Roderick  September 4, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Terrance Hayes Considers
    Trump vs. Poetry

    By How to Proceed   September 4, 2020
    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
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