• Features

    Antifascists

    Adriano Olivetti, Industrialist, Typewriter King… Antifascist?

    By Meryle Secrest  November 18, 2019
    Film

    On Dennis Cooper’s Elegant Jump to Film

    By Jeff Jackson  November 18, 2019
    Cities

    On Finding Archipelagos of Beauty in the Eternal City

    By Marco Lodoli  November 18, 2019
    A Poem

    “Sappho Drives Upstate (Fr. 2)”
    A Poem by Anne Carson

    By Anne Carson  November 18, 2019
    Nature Writing

    Elizabeth Rush: Atlas with Shifting Edges

    By Emergence Magazine  November 18, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Terry Tempest Williams on William Merwin and Becoming an Environmental Activist

    By But That's Another Story  November 18, 2019
    First Draft

    Nick Flynn on Avoiding Narrative Affect Disorder

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 18, 2019
    Cities

    Between Pastureland and Progress:
    On the Many Lives of an American City

    By Sarah Wagner  November 15, 2019
    Classic Novels

    On the Unpublished Ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Other Mysteries

    By Romy Ash  November 15, 2019
    Tyranny

    Holding the Line Between Democracy and Tyranny: Anonymous Sources

    By John Freeman  November 15, 2019
    Culture

    The Magazine Explaining America to the French

    By Olivia Snaije  November 15, 2019
    Oddities

    The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana

    By John Woolf  November 15, 2019
    Keen On

    How Has the Publishing Industry Been Affected by Trump?

    By Keen On  November 15, 2019
    Witches

    In Order to Write, I Had to Break a Family Curse

    By Amanda Yates Garcia  November 15, 2019
    Grief

    Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint

    By David Kessler  November 15, 2019
    New Books Network

    Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

    By New Books Network  November 15, 2019
    Sun Valley

    Ayad Akhtar: Muslims in America, a Playwright’s Compendium of Characters

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  November 15, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Lit Hub Recommends: Schitt’s Creek, Stumptown, and Motherless Brooklyn

    By Literary Hub  November 15, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Cassandra King Conroy on Her New Book, Tell Me a Story

    By The Literary Life  November 15, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

    By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
    True Crime

    The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

    By Philip Metres  November 14, 2019
    TV

    Will Self: Claire Foy Will Always Be My Queen

    By Will Self  November 14, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Kevin Wilson: Children Bursting Into Flames… Metaphor or No?

    By The Maris Review  November 14, 2019
    Childhood

    Nabokov on the Wondrous World of Russian Toys

    By Vladimir Nabokov  November 14, 2019
    Philosophy

    You’re Almost Definitely More of a Jerk Than You Think You Are

    By Eric Schwitzgebel  November 14, 2019
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