On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

Brock Clarke: What Makes a Good Person Doesn’t Usually Make for a Good Story

By Brock Clarke | March 17, 2021

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

Mark Haber Traces an Indispensable Influence on His Reading
and Writing Life

By Mark Haber | March 17, 2021

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

David Laskin on an Unyielding Literary Paradox

By David Laskin | March 17, 2021

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Looking Back at the "Wild and Elusive" Poet

By Vivian Gornick | March 17, 2021

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Tell Don’t Show? What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers

Lisa Cron on What We Really Want From a Story

By Lisa Cron | March 17, 2021

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

Esmé Weijun Wang on the Physical and Visceral Act of Writing

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | March 17, 2021

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Ozzy, Mötley, Poison... On the Sacred Role of the Hair Metal Ballad

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Trump Television: Life in the Daytime Talk Show Presidency

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Edward Hirsch: Don't Forget to Feel the Heartbreak

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Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

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Talia Hibbert on Inviting Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Characters into Rom-Coms

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Yamen Manai on Waiting for the Perfect Allegory

Yamen Manai on Waiting for the Perfect Allegory

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 17, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Unfinished Business</em> by Vivian Gornick

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

Carlin Romano on One of the Finalists for Criticism

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<em>All Thirteen</em> by Christina Soontornvat, Read by Quincy Surasmith

All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat, Read by Quincy Surasmith

Hear the True Account of the Dramatic Cave Rescue in Thailand

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