• Features

    The Critic and Her Publics

    Andrea Long Chu on Liking and Hating

    By The Critic and Her Publics   January 30, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    “I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton.” Padgett Powell, Legend

    By Jean Marc Ah-Sen  January 30, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Duncan M. Yoon on the Literary Interplay Between China and Africa

    By History of Literature  January 30, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Wesley Morris on the Disappearing Middle

    By Talk Easy  January 30, 2024
    War

    What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

    By Aminatta Forna  January 29, 2024
    Book Hoarding

    On Book Hoarding and the Perilous Paradox of Clutter

    By Vanessa Ogle  January 29, 2024
    Language

    Playing the Dozens: On the Joys and Functions of Sh*t Talk

    By Rafi Kohan  January 29, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

    By Rachel Gordan  January 29, 2024
    Arab American Literature

    No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

    By Aisha Abdel Gawad  January 29, 2024
    First Draft

    Ilyon Woo on Not Trying to Force It

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 29, 2024
    Write-minded

    Janet Fitch on Writing With All The Senses

    By Write-minded   January 29, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  January 26, 2024
    On Writing

    Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

    By William Maxwell  January 26, 2024
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

    By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  January 26, 2024
    Medical history

    More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

    By Gary Taubes  January 26, 2024
    Poetry

    “Self-Portrait as Sister.” A Poem by Ae Hee Lee

    By Ae Hee Lee  January 26, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 26, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 25, 2024
    Postcolonialism

    The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

    By Adam Shatz  January 25, 2024
    Film History

    How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

    By Odie Henderson  January 25, 2024
    The Holocaust

    Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

    By József Debreczeni  January 25, 2024
    Reckonings

    What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

    By Danell Jones  January 25, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 25, 2024
    The History of Literature

    David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

    By History of Literature  January 25, 2024
    Revision

    Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

    By Laurie Frankel  January 24, 2024
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