• Freeman’s

    Freeman's

    The Call of the Void: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Losing Home, Identity, and Her Father

    "What it is I have inherited from him more profoundly: his Palestinian-ness or his propensity to fall?"

     
    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  November 2, 2023
    Gaza

    Stories Too Awful to Believe: Adania Shibli on Bombings in Ramallah

    By Adania Shibli  October 18, 2023
    End Times

    Aleksandar Hemon on Living at the End of Time

    By Aleksander Hemon  October 12, 2023
    Freeman's

    What Books Are You Most Looking Forward to This Year?

    By Literary Hub  January 19, 2023
    Short Stories

    “The Cat Thief” by Son Bo-mi, Translated by Janet Hong

    By Son Bo-mi and Janet Hong  November 8, 2022
    Freeman's

    “The Right Ratio”

    By David Lehman  December 22, 2021
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Freeman's

    An Avalanche’s Lessons in Grief

    By Christy NaMee Eriksen  November 11, 2021
    Poetry

    “The Way the Tides”

    By Rickey Laurentiis  October 29, 2021
    Freeman's

    Lauren Groff on Growing Up in What Felt Like the Middle of Nowhere

    By Lauren Groff  September 28, 2021
    Endings

    On the Ending of a Literary Journal

    John Freeman Says Goodbye to Freeman's

    By Freeman's   October 18, 2023
    The Year in Reading

    Rabih Alameddine’s Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 17, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
    in Reading

    By H.M. Naqvi  December 16, 2020
    Pets

    Why We Can’t Stop Loving the Most Troublesome Pets

    By Matt Sumell  October 5, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    Sara Reggiani on Belonging, Kinship, and Translating Ellen Meloy's Nature Writing

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    Poetry

    “Wet Market”

    By Sally Wen Mao  September 14, 2020
    Climate Change

    Writing in the Edgelands: A Conversation Between Kerri Arsenault and
    Elizabeth Rush

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 8, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Informal: On Consummation After Confinement

    By Chiara Barzini  July 24, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

    Lawrence Joseph on Robert Hayden, Etel Adnan, Adrienne Rich, and Cathy Park Hong

    By Lawrence Joseph  April 22, 2020
    Military Industrial Complex

    The Invisible Militarization of
    Daily Life in America

    By Ryan Ruby  April 16, 2020
    Poem

    A Poem by Nicholas Christopher

    By Nicholas Christopher  April 15, 2020
    AIDS

    How to Bartend

    By Rabih Alameddine  April 8, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed

    Lauren Markham on Solitude, Snow, and Finding Reasons to Write

    By Lauren Markham  April 6, 2020
    Dystopias

    Joanna Kavenna: Stress-Testing the Apocalyptic Novel

    By Fran Bigman  March 23, 2020
    Poets

    “At The Shore”

    By Frank Bidart  February 26, 2020
    Best of the Year

    What Did You Read This Year
    That You Loved?

    By Literary Hub  December 18, 2020
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