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Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

“If a poem is a machine made of words, it only runs as well as the words we choose to build it.”

By Maggie Smith | July 27, 2021

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

The Author of We Want What We Want Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 27, 2021

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

Amanda Kabak Recommends Sarah Waters, Michael Cunningham, and More

By Amanda Kabak | July 27, 2021

20 new books to get you through the week.

20 new books to get you through the week.

By Katie Yee | July 27, 2021

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s <em>Inferno</em>

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

Considering the Scarcity of Female Characters in the Cantos

By Mary Jo Bang | July 26, 2021

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

Julienne Gehrer Takes a Closer Look at Martha Lloyd’s Household Book

By Julienne Gehrer | July 26, 2021

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Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

By Alix Ohlin | July 26, 2021

WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 26, 2021

Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines.

By Dan Sheehan | July 23, 2021

What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

A Conversation Between Carl Safina and Nick McDonell

By Nick McDonell | July 23, 2021

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

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By The Virtual Book Channel | July 23, 2021

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

From Yaa Gyasi to Joan Silber Beth Kissileff Finds Consolation in Reading

By Beth Kissileff | July 23, 2021

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

K.E. Semmel on Mathilde Walter Clark’s Lone Star

By K. E. Semmel | July 23, 2021

On <em>Freaks and Geeks</em> and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

Matt Mitchell Builds His Own Intersex Canon

By Matt Mitchell | July 22, 2021

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 22, 2021

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

Richard Zenith on the Many Literary Lives of the Genius of Lisbon

By Richard Zenith | July 22, 2021

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