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Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

“Poems don’t have to self-flagellate to be meaningful. That seems very Puritanical. Too American.”

By Sandra Simonds and Rodrigo Toscano | June 2, 2022

On Domesticity and Memory in James Baldwin and Becky Suss

On Domesticity and Memory in James Baldwin and Becky Suss

Peter L’Official on Suss’s “Brand of Children’s Vision for Adults”

By Pete L’Official | June 2, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Hilton Als on Thom Gunn, Ben Ehrenreich on Barry Lopez, Laura Miller on Kellyanne Conway, and more

By Book Marks | June 2, 2022

On Jazmina Barrera’s <em>Linea Nigra</em> and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

On Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

Malwina Gudowska: “Language, like motherhood, lives on the body.”

By Malwina Gudowska | June 2, 2022

WATCH: Candice Iloh in Conversation with Ibi Zoboi

WATCH: Candice Iloh in Conversation with Ibi Zoboi

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 2, 2022

Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

Andreas Kilcher on the “Grotesque, Carnivalesque” Inventions

By Andreas Kilcher | June 1, 2022

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The Literary Value of a Good List

By Lily Chu | June 1, 2022

Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis

By Erin Swan | June 1, 2022

When Having a Baby Requires a Rewrite: Jessamine Chan on Parenthood and The School for Good Mothers

By Thresholds | June 1, 2022

Finding Resonance in the Unreal: A Conversation Between Sam Knight and Sarah Krasnostein

Finding Resonance in the Unreal: A Conversation Between Sam Knight and Sarah Krasnostein

On Crafting Narrative Nonfiction, Surrendering to the Lure of the Archive, and Reclaiming "Quirky"

By Sarah Krasnostein | June 1, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Challenge of Writing Satire in Present-Day America

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Challenge of Writing Satire in Present-Day America

The Author of The Evening Hero in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | June 1, 2022

9 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books </br>to Jazz Up Your June

9 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
to Jazz Up Your June

Featuring New Books by Katherine Addison, Melissa Albert, Alix E. Harrow, and More

By Book Marks | June 1, 2022

11 Novels That Thwart Traditional Narrative Structure (to Brilliant Effect)

11 Novels That Thwart Traditional Narrative Structure (to Brilliant Effect)

Maria Adelmann Recommends Fiction That Creates Its Own Shapes

By Maria Adelmann | June 1, 2022

On Adjoa Andoh, Golden Voice Narrator

On Adjoa Andoh, Golden Voice Narrator

Celebrating the 2022 Golden Voices

By Behind the Mic | June 1, 2022

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Between Fact and Fable: Historical Fiction or Nonfictional Novel?

Clayton Wickham on the Imagined Histories of Danielle Dutton and Benjamin Labatut

By Clayton Wickham | May 31, 2022

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

What’s In a Name? Tracing an Obsession with the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Michael Blanding on the (Extremely Compelling) Sir Thomas North Theory

By Michael Blanding | May 31, 2022

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