• Features

    Literary History

    Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

    By Lev Grossman  October 2, 2019
    Literary History

    Sigrid Undset’s Doomed Flâneuse is
    a Cautionary Tale

    By Lauren Elkin  October 2, 2019
    Sun Valley

    Min Jin Lee: On Speaking
    and Power

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

    By Jacek Dehnel  October 2, 2019
    Probability

    Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

    By Ian Stewart  October 2, 2019
    What to Read

    12 Books You Should Read
    This October

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2019
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  October 2, 2019
    Reading Women

    On Cross-Cultural Dualities and Rejecting Stereotypes

    By Reading Women  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson

    By Karen Solie  October 1, 2019
    Influences

    Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
    I Needed to Write My Novel

    By Ocean Vuong  October 1, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
    5 Questions

    Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer’s Block and Women With Swords

    By Felicia Day  October 1, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature’s Most Necessary Characters

    By Alberto Manguel  October 1, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Economics

    Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

    By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
    Feminism

    Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
    Otherppl

    Belén Fernández: A Journalist’s Life in Exile

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 1, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  September 30, 2019
    Short story writers

    Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

    By Lauren Groff  September 30, 2019
    First Draft

    Téa Obreht on Abandoning a 600-Page Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 30, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    When Will Ben Lerner Admit He’s a Novelist?

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father’s Journey Home

    By Maya Phillips  September 30, 2019
    Writing Rules

    Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

    By Anthony Doerr  September 30, 2019
    Activism

    On Dog Whistle Politics, Gaslighting, and Other Contemporary Political Tools

    By Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith  September 30, 2019
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