From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

“Fiction offers us a way of looking at people’s interior and interconnected lives that... holds space for contradiction.”

By Alejandro Heredia | February 12, 2025

Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë's <em>Villette</em>

Olivia Laing on Charlotte Brontë's Villette

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

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 12, 2025

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Making Artifacts

Kaitlyn Greenidge on Making Artifacts

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | February 11, 2025

Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction

Amanda Peters on Chronicling the Native Experience Through Short Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Waiting for the Long Night Moon”

By Jane Ciabattari | February 11, 2025

How to Write a Good Sex Scene

How to Write a Good Sex Scene

25 Writers on the Hardest (Sorry) Literary Technique

By Emily Temple | February 11, 2025

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

Hanna Phifer in Conversation with the Author of “Perfect Victims”

By Hanna Phifer | February 11, 2025

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Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

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David Gessner: “If we are very lucky, we find that the thing we have picked up is hitched to everything else in the universe.”

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Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

Sarah Chihaya on Reading as Creative Act

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 10, 2025

Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

Tara Dorabji on Why Scope Matters

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Immemorial”

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Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

Sophia Terazawa on Mistranslation and Writing in a Traitor Tongue

“I struggle to inherit my mother’s music, picking up what I can and stumbling like a fussy child forward.”

By Sophia Terazawa | February 7, 2025

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 6, 2025

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

From the Introduction to “44 Poems on Being with Each Other”

By Pádraig Ó' Tuama | February 6, 2025

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