On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

David Kirby Plumbs the Uncertain Depths of Art and Truth

By David Kirby | December 10, 2021

Prayers for the Stolen: How Two Artists Portray the Violence of Human Trafficking in Mexico

Prayers for the Stolen: How Two Artists Portray the Violence of Human Trafficking in Mexico

Jennifer Clement on Her 2014 Novel and Tatiana Huezo's New Film Adaptation

By Jennifer Clement | December 10, 2021

Valerie Miles on the Craft of Curating Translators

Valerie Miles on the Craft of Curating Translators

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | December 10, 2021

Puncturing a Dream: On the Dark-Edged Fantasy of the Ballerina and Traditional Femininity

Puncturing a Dream: On the Dark-Edged Fantasy of the Ballerina and Traditional Femininity

Rachel Kapelke-Dale Revisits the End of Her Former Life in Dance

By Rachel Kapelke-Dale | December 10, 2021

Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

What Does a Collection Offer that a Single Story Cannot?

By Cara Blue Adams | December 10, 2021

Elliot Ackerman on Exploring US-China Relations in His New Book

Elliot Ackerman on Exploring US-China Relations in His New Book

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | December 10, 2021

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Roisin Kiberd on the Solipsism of Social Media

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 9, 2021

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

By Polly Crosby | December 9, 2021

Katie Kitamura on the Discomfort of Calling Herself a Writer

By Thresholds | December 8, 2021

Denise Williams on Interrogating “Guilty Pleasures”

Denise Williams on Interrogating “Guilty Pleasures”

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | December 8, 2021

Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 6, 2021

Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | December 3, 2021

Priyanka Sacheti on the Complexities of Unbelonging

Priyanka Sacheti on the Complexities of Unbelonging

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | December 3, 2021

Emerald Fennell on <em>Promising Young Woman</em> and Writing After Winning an Oscar

Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman and Writing After Winning an Oscar

In Conversation with Gemma Cairney at the Hay Fest Winter Weekend

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 3, 2021

Jeanne Matthews on the Lasting Impacts of the Civil War on Her Characters in <em>Devil by the Tail</em>

Jeanne Matthews on the Lasting Impacts of the Civil War on Her Characters in Devil by the Tail

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | December 3, 2021

Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Internet

Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Internet

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 2, 2021

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