• Features

    Nature Writing

    Why Are We Driven to Explore the Very Depths of This Earthly Abyss?

    By Robert Macfarlane  June 18, 2019
    Literary Nemeses

    What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

    By Jen Corrigan  June 18, 2019
    Adaptations

    How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

    By Rebecca Renner  June 18, 2019
    Writing Life

    What Anne Sexton Taught Me About… Self-Promotion

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 18, 2019
    Kafka

    “Franz Kafka” the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

    By Renée Reizman  June 18, 2019
    Politics

    Why Does a Language Die?

    By Don Kulick  June 18, 2019
    Nigerian Literature

    How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

    By Nnamdi Ehirim  June 18, 2019
    On The Self

    On the Intoxicating Power of Forgetting Where You Came From

    By Lewis Hyde  June 18, 2019
    So Many Damn Books

    Mona Awad on the Creepiness of Cliques and College Towns

    By So Many Damn Books  June 18, 2019
    Summer reading

    20 “Perfect Summer Books” for This and Every Year

    By Emily Temple  June 17, 2019
    Wine

    The Natural Wine Movement is About More Than Just Wine

    By Jonathan Nossiter  June 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

    By Hannah Seidlitz  June 17, 2019
    Difficult Defenses

    In Defense of My Family Business: The Soap Opera Storyteller

    By Nicholas Mancusi  June 17, 2019
    Criticism

    On Movies and How to Write About Them

    By Literary Hub  June 17, 2019
    Movies

    How Lakshmi Shankar Became the Voice Behind the Epic Gandhi

    By Kavita Das  June 17, 2019
    American History

    Discovering America’s Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

    By Darren Dochuk  June 17, 2019
    Criticism

    The Hero We Need: Keanu Reeves is Demolishing All Our Dumb Stereotypes

    By Marjorie Liu  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other

    By Dean Kuipers  June 14, 2019
    Harry Potter

    On Bringing the World of Harry Potter to Life in… Florida

    By Stephen M. Silverman  June 14, 2019
    Bloomsday

    Fighting to Save the Real-Life Pharmacy from James Joyce’s Ulysses

    By Ally Findley  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    A Brief Literary History of Absolutely Terrible Dads

    By Andrew Thurman  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Red Sox Great Luis Tiant on Reuniting with His Father After 14 Years

    By Luis Tiant  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Remembering My Father, Jacques Lacan

    By Sibylle Lacan  June 14, 2019
    Parenting and Writing

    Writing During Naptime, a Parent’s Practice

    By Katie Gutierrez  June 14, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
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