• Features

    News and Culture

    The Unapologetic Politics
    of Howard Fast

    By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
    Parenting

    Creating Literary Community for Writers Raising Children

    By Matt Grant  December 6, 2019
    Keen On

    Jacobin Editor Bhaskar Sunkara Makes His Case for Socialism

    By Keen On  December 6, 2019
    LIC Reading Series

    Idra Novey, John Wray, and Garnette Cadogan on the Rorschach of Fiction

    By LIC Reading Series  December 6, 2019
    Poem

    “Bucolic”
    A Poem by Hannah Brooks-Motl

    By Hannah Brooks-Motl  December 6, 2019
    New Books Network

    Rebecca Clarren on Gas Kickdowns, Losing Control of the Land, and the People we Love

    By New Books Network  December 6, 2019
    The Literary Life

    Chris Stein on New York City Through the Eyes of a Punk Rocker

    By The Literary Life  December 6, 2019
    Just the Right Book

    Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Intimate Evil of Enslavement

    By Just the Right Book   December 5, 2019
    On Poetry

    Charles Wright’s Resistance Against Certainty

    By Mary Szybist  December 5, 2019
    Immigration

    Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019
    The Maris Review

    Susan Choi on Winning the National Book Award (and She Loves Cats: The Musical!)

    By The Maris Review  December 5, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Talk Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 5, 2019
    Biography

    On the Ambitious Beginnings of China’s Influential Soong Sisters

    By Jung Chang  December 5, 2019
    Diaries

    Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
    30 Years to Write

    By Caroline Scott  December 5, 2019
    Poem

    “After Reading Wang Wei, I Go Outside to the Full Moon”
    A Poem by Charles Wright

    By Charles Wright  December 5, 2019
    Celebrity

    Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due

    By Leah Rosenzweig  December 4, 2019
    Philosophy

    Michael Schur on Peter Singer’s Moral Challenge to
    the Rest of Us

    By Michael Schur  December 4, 2019
    Chefs

    Sean Brock on the Ingenuity, Soul, and Care that Created ‘Southern Cuisine’

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 4, 2019
    Freeman's

    The Impostor Poets of Iceland Issue a Manifesto

    By Literary Hub  December 4, 2019
    Drafts

    What Your Draft (and Its Problems) Says About You

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  December 4, 2019
    News and Culture

    Telling the Story of Zimbabwe’s Subversive Creatives

    By Greta Rainbow  December 4, 2019
    Sociology

    Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

    By J. M. Fenster  December 4, 2019
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Winners of Reading Women’s 2019 Award!

    By Reading Women  December 4, 2019
    The House of SpeakEasy

    The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: It’s Not You

    By The SpeakEasy Podcast   December 4, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Kate Racculia on Day Jobs, the Old Internet, and the Death of Malls

    By So Many Damn Books  December 4, 2019
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