• Features

    Epic poetry

    A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad‘s Opening Lines

    By Robin Lane Fox  October 30, 2023
    The Sea

    The Shape of Water: How the Movement of Oceans Impacts Human Activity

    By Helen Czerski  October 30, 2023
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

    By AudioFile Magazine  October 30, 2023
    Write-minded

    Isabel Cañas on the Gothic and Drawing from Everyday Monsters

    By Write-minded   October 30, 2023
    First Draft

    Richard Deming on Boy George, Bowie, and Not Feeling Alone

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Anna Badkhen on Imprints of the Past

    By Emergence Magazine  October 30, 2023
    Women in Science

    The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History

    By Jan Eliasberg  October 27, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

    By Patty Crane  October 27, 2023
    Film and TV

    The Holdovers is a Revelation

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    50 Years Later, Terrence Malick’s Badlands Remains a Pure Encapsulation of American Violence

    By Gus Mitchell  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    Evan Hughes on Writing the Book Behind Pain Hustlers

    By Evan Hughes  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    Goosebumps Remixes Its Source Material to Satisfying Results

    By Michael Kraus  October 27, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    By Tania Branigan  October 27, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

    By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Sandra Newman on Writing Another View of 1984

    By Keen On  October 27, 2023
    Keen On

    David Leonhardt on the Decline of the American Dream

    By Keen On  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

    By Emily Temple  October 27, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2023
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Fact, Fiction, and Film: Jeremy Cooper on Creating Verisimilitude

    By Jeremy Cooper  October 26, 2023
    Music history

    The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison’s First Time

    By Philip Norman  October 26, 2023
    Representation

    Romance and Representation: On the Rise of the Asian American Romantic Comedy

    By Jeff Yang  October 26, 2023
    Puerto Rican Literature

    On Puerto Rican Literature and “Abyssal Exclusion”

    By Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones  October 26, 2023
    Poetry

    “Life Line to Gaza”: A Poem by Ru Freeman

    By Ru Freeman  October 26, 2023
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