How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

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In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

Natalie Jenner Breaks Down an Alluring Authorial Move

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My Queer Life Is Not Inappropriate, and Neither Are the Books That Reflect It

My Queer Life Is Not Inappropriate, and Neither Are the Books That Reflect It

Nicole Melleby on Writing Books that Help Queer Kids and the Kids of Queer Parents Feel Seen

By Nicole Melleby | May 23, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing

The Author of The Evening Hero Talks to Jimin Han

By Jimin Han | May 23, 2022

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

“No one wants to feel the writer trying too hard.”

By Jonathan Lee | May 20, 2022

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

Mesha Maren in Conversation with Fernando Flores

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Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

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