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The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

Seán Hewitt Explores Folk's Constant, Changing Repository of Stories

By Seán Hewitt | April 15, 2025

Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 15, 2025

An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

Heather Swan on the Many Roles of a Poet, and Friend

By Heather Swan | April 14, 2025

Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes... And Other Non-Sentient Objects

Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes... And Other Non-Sentient Objects

Celia Mattison on “Sky Daddy,” “Blob,” and the Allure of the Non-Human Love Interest

By Celia Mattison | April 14, 2025

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Claire Hoffman on Aimee Semple McPherson

By Claire Hoffman | April 14, 2025

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

By Tiana Clark | April 14, 2025

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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“How do we lie to ourselves so convincingly, and what is the cost of those lies?”

By Book Marks | April 10, 2025

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

Uttama Kirit Patel Recommends Constance Debré, Julie Phillips, Anna Hogeland, and More

By Uttama Kirit Patel | April 10, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Katie Kitamura, Denis Johnson, Kyle Edwards, and Others

By Diana Arterian | April 10, 2025

Sheila Sundar on International Scholars

Sheila Sundar on International Scholars

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 10, 2025

Rewatching <em>The Sound of Music</em> in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

Meredith Hambrock on Women’s Ambition, Nazism, and Patriarchy on the 60th Anniversary of a Classic Film

By Meredith Hambrock | April 9, 2025

On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>

On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey

Daniel Mendelsohn Considers the Legacy of a Civilization-Making Epic

By Daniel Mendelsohn | April 9, 2025

On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

Priya Vulchi Considers the Lifespans of Literary and Political Friendships

By Priya Vulchi | April 9, 2025

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