On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

Gordy Sauer Recommends Books by Téa Obreht, Hernan Diaz, and More

By Gordy Sauer | August 27, 2021

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

Amy Wright Wonders “What We Can Bear to Learn?”

By Amy Wright | August 27, 2021

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

"To write well we must sink into the silt of this world."

By Bonnie Friedman | August 27, 2021

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Michelle Jana Chan on the Power of Family to Shape Your Own Narrative

By Michelle Jana Chan | August 27, 2021

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

Kia Corthron on the Challenges of Dialect in Historical Fiction

By Kia Corthron | August 27, 2021

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint Finds Connections With Her Great-Grandfather

By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint | August 27, 2021

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Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro on the Global Epidemic of Irrational Thinking

By Keen On | August 27, 2021

Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

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Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

By New Books Network | August 27, 2021

Patricia Engel on the Natural Human Instinct to Migrate

Patricia Engel on the Natural Human Instinct to Migrate

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | August 27, 2021

<em>Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife</em> by Alison Weir, Read by Rosalyn Landor

Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir, Read by Rosalyn Landor

Continue the Saga of the Six Tudor Queens

By Behind the Mic | August 27, 2021

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

From Fido Nesti's Adaption of George Orwell's Classic 1984

By George Orwell and Frido Nesti | August 26, 2021

Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

Some Advice for the Graduating Class of Bennington College
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By Wayne Koestenbaum | August 26, 2021

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 26, 2021

George Packer on Redefining

George Packer on Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | August 26, 2021

Police Abolition Is About Building Up More Than Tearing Down

Police Abolition Is About Building Up More Than Tearing Down

Geo Maher on Emancipation and Reconstruction, Past and Future

By Geo Maher | August 26, 2021

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