• Features

    Film Awards

    Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

    By Roxane Gay  January 31, 2020
    New Books Network

    Kameron Hurley on Imagining Impossible Tech and Making Ends Meet as a Writer

    By New Books Network  January 31, 2020
    Literary Community

    How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

    By Mark Gustafson  January 31, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Diane Ravitch’s Fight to Save Our Public Schools

    By The Literary Life  January 31, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk, Read by Edoardo Ballerini and the Author

    By Behind the Mic   January 31, 2020
    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    WWII

    The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of
    Nazi-Occupied France

    By Justus Rosenberg  January 30, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine on Providing Representation for Her People

    By The Maris Review  January 30, 2020
    Teaching

    The Chaotic Side of Learning: Keeping High School Seniors From Falling Asleep

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 30, 2020
    Literary History

    Jack London’s Call to Service and Humanism

    By Jack London  January 30, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    All the President’s Henchmen: Susan Choi and Garrett Graff on the Citizens of the Swamp

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 30, 2020
    Festivals

    15 Essential Colombian Novels You Should Read

    By Literary Hub  January 30, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Richard Stengel on How to Save Our Democracy

    By Just the Right Book   January 30, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Don’t Be Evil by Rana Foroohar, Read by Rachel Fulginiti

    By Behind the Mic   January 30, 2020
    LIC Reading Series

    Chelsea Hodson, Allie Rowbottom, and Amanda Stern on Putting Themselves Out in the World

    By LIC Reading Series  January 30, 2020
    Open Letters

    Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

    By 141 Writers  January 29, 2020
    Self-Help?

    When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

    By Beth Blum  January 29, 2020
    WWII

    The Italian Women Who Resisted the Nazis with Stones and Willpower

    By Caroline Moorehead  January 29, 2020
    Children's Lit

    On One of the Greatest Children’s Ghost Books Ever Published

    By Jessica Mesman Griffith  January 29, 2020
    Otherppl

    Elaine Kahn on Living a Life Committed to Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 29, 2020
    Reading Across America

    A Reading Series for People to Share Their Grief

    By Laura Winnick  January 29, 2020
    Writer's Diaries

    It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

    By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Books Talk Big Screen Adaptations

    By So Many Damn Books  January 29, 2020
    Reading Women

    Tishani Doshi on Writing as an Act of Great Optimism

    By Reading Women  January 29, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy, Read by Will Damron

    By Behind the Mic   January 29, 2020
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