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Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories

Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 21, 2025

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

“The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”

By Ilya Kaminsky | August 20, 2025

A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear

A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear

Michael Horowitz on the Gentle Refugee (and Best Bear of Them All?)

By Daniel Horowitz | August 20, 2025

Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s <em>Possession</em> Paved the Way for Dark Academia

Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia

The Author of “Lessons in Magic and Disaster” Rereads an Iconic Text in a Time of Academic Suppression

By Charlie Jane Anders | August 19, 2025

Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

Susana M. Morris on the Early Writing of a Literary Icon

By Susana M. Morris | August 19, 2025

James Baldwin! Octavia Butler! Deadwood! 20 new books out today.

James Baldwin! Octavia Butler! Deadwood! 20 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 19, 2025

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Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

By Ed Simon | August 18, 2025

A Million Sour Cherry Orchards: Olia Hercules on Remembering the Ghosts of Ukraine

By Olia Hercules | August 15, 2025

Nancy Reddy on Finding the Plot in Your Own Life

By Nancy Reddy | August 15, 2025

“Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan

“Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan

Huda Fakhreddine: “A real poem is never only of the moment. A real poem defeats time, every time.”

By Nima Hasan | August 15, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.”

By Book Marks | August 14, 2025

Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

The Author of “The Island of Last Things” Visits Alcatraz and Offers an Antidote to Doomerism

By Emma Sloley | August 14, 2025

The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler’s First Public Poetry Reading

By Nathan Kernan | August 14, 2025

Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 14, 2025

The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

From Inside the Besieged Strip, Alaa Alqaisi on Life as a “Sustained Dismantling of the Soul”

By Alaa Alqaisi | August 13, 2025

Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's <em>An Interesting Detail</em>

Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's An Interesting Detail

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 13, 2025

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