• Features

    Reading Lists

    Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

    By Helen Phillips  August 7, 2024
    Writing Place

    Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

    By Lena Valencia  August 7, 2024
    Nomads

    Those Who Wander: A History of Nomadic Pastoralism in Southeastern Europe

    By Kapka Kassabova  August 7, 2024
    Inspiration

    Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

    By Kate Weinberg  August 7, 2024
    The Writing Life

    The Art of Giving Up (and Starting Over) as a Novelist

    By Kat Tang  August 7, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 7, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 6, 2024
    literary criticism

    The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

    By Sophie Brickman  August 6, 2024
    craft advice

    A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

    By Jane Alison  August 6, 2024
    Reissues

    Sanity Is Relative: Melissa Broder on Elaine Kraf’s The Princess of 72nd Street

    By Melissa Broder  August 6, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain

    By I'm a Writer But   August 6, 2024
    Cultural History

    Slippery, Slimy and Sublime: On Our Fascination with Eels

    By Ellen Ruppel Shell  August 5, 2024
    Climate Crisis

    Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

    By Rob Jackson  August 5, 2024
    African Literature

    How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience

    By Jessica Powers  August 5, 2024
    Ethics

    Should Humanity Pay the Ultimate Price For Its Crimes Against Nature?

    By Todd May  August 5, 2024
    First Draft

    Jill Ciment on Struggling With Certainty

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 5, 2024
    Write-minded

    Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt Offer Publishing Advice From the Trenches

    By Memoir Nation   August 5, 2024
    On Poetry

    We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

    By Mary Jo Salter  August 3, 2024
    Palestine

    James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

    By Alexander Durie  August 2, 2024
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

    By Natalia Olbinski  August 2, 2024
    Modern Classics

    Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

    By Tom Jenks  August 2, 2024
    James Baldwin

    Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

    By Caoilinn Hughes  August 2, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Bret Anthony Johnson on Creating a Story’s Foundation

    By Bret Anthony Johnson  August 2, 2024
    Children's Lit

    Graphic Novels, Multigenerational Epics, and More: 10 Great Children’s Books Out This August

    By Caroline Carlson  August 1, 2024
    Poetry

    Capturing the Strange Terror of the World: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August

    By David Woo  August 1, 2024
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