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'Original Fire,' <br>A Poem by Louise Erdrich

'Original Fire,'
A Poem by Louise Erdrich

From the Latest Issue of Freeman's

By Louise Erdrich | May 10, 2019

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

Kanako Nishi on Writing Gender, Power, and the Pain of Others

"I believe that lines should be capable of changing shape in many ways."

By Allison Markin Powell | May 8, 2019

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

What's Not to Love About Descriptions of Food and Strong Opinions About Poets?

By Gerður Kristný | May 7, 2019

Deborah Landau, Writing Poems For<br> an Unsafe World

Deborah Landau, Writing Poems For
an Unsafe World

In Conversation with the Author of Soft Targets

By Fran Bigman | April 25, 2019

Jenni Fagan:

Jenni Fagan: "If a Poem Wants Written at 3 am I Get Up."

On the Urgency and Necessity of Writing Poetry

By Jenni Fagan | April 3, 2019

Our Software, Ourselves: Who Really Writes Our Narratives?

Our Software, Ourselves: Who Really Writes Our Narratives?

Pola Oloixarac on the Ungoogleable Lightness of Being

By Pola Oloixarac | March 28, 2019

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By Lena Andersson | March 27, 2019

How Barry Lopez Got Me Through a Backcountry Winter

By Bryce Andrews | March 18, 2019

Astonishment in Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams

By Anna Badkhen | March 14, 2019

A Letter to Virginia Woolf,On Translating <em>A Room of One's Own</em> into Romanian

A Letter to Virginia Woolf,On Translating A Room of One's Own into Romanian

"I write to you as myself, I write to you as us all, I write to you as one."

By Elena Marcu | March 6, 2019

The Astronomical Cost of Clean Air in Bangkok

The Astronomical Cost of Clean Air in Bangkok

"Almost Everything in Bangkok Eventually Becomes Smoke"

By Pitchaya Sudbanthad | February 27, 2019

Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother

Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother

"My mother, who spent most of her life building work and family, never built a room of her own."

By Marlon James | February 4, 2019

When a Very Small Press Wins a Pulitzer

When a Very Small Press Wins a Pulitzer

Paul Harding Looks Back at Tinkers, Ten Years On

By Paul Harding | January 24, 2019

"When It Comes to This Fleshed Neck"

Deborah Landau's Poem in the Latest Freeman's

By Deborah Landau | January 11, 2019

Conversations with My Nanny

Conversations with My Nanny

Leila Slimani, Author of The Nanny, on Her Not-So-Prudish Nanny

By Leïla Slimani | January 10, 2019

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

"I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death."

By Honor Moore | January 3, 2019

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