The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

Dan O'Brien Has Some Thoughts on the Way Characters Should Talk

By Dan O'Brien | September 20, 2021

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Josh Cook on This Year’s Recipient of the National Book Foundations’s Literarian Award

By Josh Cook | September 17, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

On the “Slow Burn” of Publishing Poetry

By Corinne Segal | September 17, 2021

An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000... <br>But Was it Stolen?

An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000...
But Was it Stolen?

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Curious Case of a Great Poet’s Hair

By Jen DeGregorio | September 16, 2021

You Want Voice? It’s Everywhere in Contemporary Fiction

You Want Voice? It’s Everywhere in Contemporary Fiction

Katie Yee Has Had Enough With a Certain Corner of
the Literary Internet

By Katie Yee | September 16, 2021

Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

Lauren Elkin on the Writer's Approach to Reality

By Lauren Elkin | September 16, 2021

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On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

By Louise Nealon | September 16, 2021

Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

By Book Dreams | September 16, 2021

Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

By The Maris Review | September 16, 2021

“Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

“Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

Maureen Freely on How a Writer Gets Erased From Literary History

By Maureen Freely | September 16, 2021

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

Stephen Marche Considers Contemporary Fiction’s Slow Abandonment of Literary Voice

By Stephen Marche | September 15, 2021

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

Maria Tatar Considers the Deep Cultural Work of Chatter

By Maria Tatar | September 15, 2021

The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and <em>Middlemarch</em>

The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

“Middlemarch—both the novel and the fictional town for which it is named—is limited by the constraints of ordinary life.”

By Rebecca Mead | September 15, 2021

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Vince Passaro Recommends Great Books About the Big Apple

By Vince Passaro | September 15, 2021

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

Andrea Abi-Karam on Writing To The Dead

By Andrea Abi-Karam | September 15, 2021

15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

By Katie Yee | September 14, 2021

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