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Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

Amie Souza Reilly Reimagines the Fairytale’s Sorceress, Surrealism, and Motherhood

By Amie Souza Reilly | May 9, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Ross Gay, Isabella Hammad, Chet’la Sebree, and Others

By Diana Arterian | May 8, 2025

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel

How Mo Ogrodnik Depicts Violence Against Women from Multiple Perspectives

By Mo Ogrodnik | May 8, 2025

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

Chill Subs’ Benjamin Davis Looks into the Economics of Submission Fees

By Benjamin Davis | May 7, 2025

Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels

Randee Dawn Explores Approaches to Trunk Fiction

By Randee Dawn | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

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Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 6, 2025

The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

By Natalie Jenner | May 6, 2025

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on <em>Never Let Me Go</em>, 20 Years Later

Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

On the Decades-Long Creative Process Behind His Most Successful Novel

By Kazuo Ishiguro | May 5, 2025

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

Disha Bose Recommends Elena Ferrante, R.F. Kuang, Sally Rooney, and More

By Disha Bose | May 5, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

Lynn Steger Strong on Being Porous to the World

Lynn Steger Strong on Being Porous to the World

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 5, 2025

Jill Ciment on What It Means to Reconsider a Memoir

Jill Ciment on What It Means to Reconsider a Memoir

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 5, 2025

“I Hope You Don’t Mind That I’ve Shared You.” Arianna Rebolini on Writing About Your Kid

“I Hope You Don’t Mind That I’ve Shared You.” Arianna Rebolini on Writing About Your Kid

On Being a Parent and a Memoirist

By Arianna Rebolini | May 2, 2025

My Mean, Rich, Hot Ex-Friend is a Mediocre Literary Darling and I Hate It

My Mean, Rich, Hot Ex-Friend is a Mediocre Literary Darling and I Hate It

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Being a Literary Asshole

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