• Features

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 8, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Elizabeth Rush on the Thwaites Glacier

    By Emergence Magazine  February 8, 2024
    Craft

    Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

    By Karen Outen  February 7, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 7, 2024
    Art History

    Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

    By Adam Greenhalgh  February 7, 2024
    Natural History

    How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

    By Gísli Pálsson  February 7, 2024
    Language

    To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

    By Rebecca K Reilly  February 7, 2024
    Modern Classics

    Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, Sophie’s Choice

    By Andrew Ewell  February 7, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2024
    Diaries

    “D,” an Alphabetical Prose Experiment by Sheila Heti

    By Sheila Heti  February 6, 2024
    Family History

    Supernatural Inheritance: On a Unique Family Gift That Crosses Continents

    By Margot Livesey  February 6, 2024
    Myths and Legends

    Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

    By Hana Videen  February 6, 2024
    Poetry

    Faith, Witches, Grief, and Smoke: New Poetry Books to Read in February

    By David Woo  February 6, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Abbott Kahler on Nature vs Nurture

    By I'm a Writer But   February 6, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

    By Talk Easy  February 6, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Vengeful Goddesses, Panther Zorro, and Time Travel Valleys: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  February 5, 2024
    First Draft

    Kaveh Akbar on Questioning Goodness

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 5, 2024
    Experimental Fiction

    Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

    By Kirsty Gunn  February 5, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

    By Ed Simon  February 5, 2024
    Borders

    Trouble at the Southern Border: How US Immigration Policy and Foreign Policy Are Inextricably Linked

    By Jonathan Blitzer  February 5, 2024
    Forgotten Classics

    Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

    By Erik Wood  February 5, 2024
    Write-minded

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

    By Write-minded   February 5, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

    By Rick Bass  February 2, 2024
    Music Writing

    The Tremendous Power and Lasting Impact of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

    By Nadirah Simmons  February 2, 2024
    Actors

    Paul Giamatti,
    This One’s For You: In Praise of the King of Pathos

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 2, 2024
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