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    Poems

    “California,” a Poem by David Semanki

    By David Semanki  April 4, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 4, 2024
    The Cosmic Library

    Welcome to Season 5 of The Cosmic Library

    By The Cosmic Library   April 4, 2024
    The History of Literature

    William Egginton on the Joys of Jodorowsky

    By History of Literature  April 4, 2024
    Publishing

    “The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution

    By Adam Morgan  April 3, 2024
    Art History

    Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design

    By Allison Rudnick  April 3, 2024
    What to Watch

    On Expats and the Literature of Hong Kong’s “Expat Bubble”

    By Aube Rey Lescure  April 3, 2024
    Bookstores

    Little Cash, Lots of Censorship: Bothayna Al-Essa on Opening a Bookstore in Kuwait

    By Bothayna Al-Essa  April 3, 2024
    Family

    The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

    By Clair Wills  April 3, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Susan Murphy Roshi on Earth as Koan

    By Emergence Magazine  April 3, 2024
    Jewish American Literature

    The Language of American Jewishness: On Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and the Duties of Freedom

    By Lily Meyer  April 2, 2024
    Poetry

    Sight and the Sacred: 7 New Poetry Books to Read This April

    By David Woo  April 2, 2024
    In Conversation

    Crystal Hana Kim on Writing as a Mother, the Korean Diaspora, and How to Structure a Page-Turner

    By Jimin Han  April 2, 2024
    Lit Century

    Daniel Saldaña Paris and Wah-Ming Chang on Pedro Páramo

    By Lit Century   April 2, 2024
    Cancer

    Seizures, Strokes, and… Spurts of Creativity? On the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor

    By Rod Nordland  April 1, 2024
    Islamophobia

    Ream Shukairy on Telling Muslim Stories in an Islamophobic World

    By Ream Shukairy  April 1, 2024
    Poetry

    “From the River to the Sea.” A Poem by Samer Abu Hawwash, translated by Huda Fakhreddine

    By Samer Abu Hawwash and Huda Fakhreddine  April 1, 2024
    Food Writing

    In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

    By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu  April 1, 2024
    Write-minded

    Kathleen Schmidt on Getting Real About Book Publishing

    By Memoir Nation   April 1, 2024
    First Draft

    Kiley Reid on Why Fiction Isn’t Activism

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 1, 2024
    Film

    Some of the Best (and Worst?) Movies of the Last Three Months

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 29, 2024
    Christianity

    Jesus Had Needs, Too: On the Sacred Blasphemy of The Last Temptation of Christ

    By Ed Simon  March 29, 2024
    Reading Lists

    March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  March 29, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of March

    By AudioFile Magazine  March 29, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rita Bullwinkel on Writing Sports Narratives

    By Rita Bullwinkel  March 29, 2024
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