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    25 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 6, 2023
    Money Matters

    “Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

    By Yiyun Li  September 6, 2023
    Diaries

    A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

    By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
    Lyric Essays

    Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

    By Hugh Ryan  September 6, 2023
    Criticism

    Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

    By Safiya Sinclair  September 6, 2023
    Poem

    “All Souls,” a Poem by Saskia Hamilton

    By Saskia Hamilton  September 6, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   September 6, 2023
    Vacations

    “Out of Time’s Monotone”: The Literary Life of the French Riviera

    By Jonathan Miles  September 6, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Richard Powers on How to Reconnect with Earth

    By Talk Easy  September 6, 2023
    In Conversation

    “Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

    By Moira Marquis  September 5, 2023
    Poetry

    Elaine Equi on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice and a Universal Language

    By Elaine Equi  September 5, 2023
    The Lord of the Rings

    Is The Lord of the Rings a Work of Modernism?

    By Nick Groom  September 5, 2023
    Poems

    “The Echo,” a Poem by Mary Jo Bang

    By Mary Jo Bang  September 5, 2023
    Rare Books

    The Beauty of Physical Encounters with Rare Books

    By Kathleen B. Jones  September 5, 2023
    American West

    Notions of “Wilderness:” Nine Essential Books About the American Frontier

    By Peter Stark  September 5, 2023
    First Draft

    David van den Berg on Seeing the Darkness

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 5, 2023
    Write-minded

    Lisa Leshne Offers Agent Insights

    By Write-minded   September 5, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Ben Purkert on Toxic Masculinity

    By I'm a Writer But   September 5, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on How Words Shape Our World

    By Emergence Magazine  September 5, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Scott Samuelson on the Pleasures of Rome

    By History of Literature  September 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: On Love’s Many Manifestations in A Green Equinox

    By Lucy Scholes  September 1, 2023
    Poetry

    A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  September 1, 2023
    Fathers and Sons

    How The Odyssey Helped My Father and Me to Grow

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  September 1, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Alicia Kennedy on Navigating the Thorny Terrain of Food Writing

    By Alicia Kennedy  September 1, 2023
    Reading List

    A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

    By Jill Talbot  September 1, 2023
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