Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

Brenda Peynado Considers the Dishonesty of Irony

By Brenda Peynado | May 17, 2021

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Tobias Carroll Rereads M. John Harrison, an Under-Recognized Master

By Tobias Carroll | May 14, 2021

Pride and Property: <br>On the Homes of Jane Austen

Pride and Property:
On the Homes of Jane Austen

Phyllis Richardson on the Manors, Rectories, and Cottages That Influenced Austen's Domestic Writing

By Phyllis Richardson | May 14, 2021

Barry Jenkins’ <em>Underground Railroad</em> is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

You Will Not Be Able to Look Away

By Emily Temple | May 14, 2021

In Praise of the Singular “They”<br> in Literary Translation

In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler on Maintaining the Aesthetic
Character of a Text

By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | May 14, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

On Starting Conversations with Readers and Emerging Writers

By Corinne Segal | May 14, 2021

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Bonnie MacBird on Expanding the Canon of Sherlock and Watson

By New Books Network | May 14, 2021

Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

By Joshua Raff | May 13, 2021

When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

By Rachel Eisendrath | May 13, 2021

Tayari Jones on <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>, Nearly Forty Years Later

Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

Reconsidering a Watershed Moment
of Black Storytelling

By Tayari Jones | May 13, 2021

Elissa Washuta on Composing the Three-Act Structure of Her Essay Collection

Elissa Washuta on Composing the Three-Act Structure of Her Essay Collection

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | May 13, 2021

A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

“She had a profound and primal need for poetry, not only as a way to cope, but as a way of forming herself.”

By Nandana Dev Sen | May 13, 2021

Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

Featuring Jo Ann Beard, Katherine Angel, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Jeannine Ouellette

By Literary Hub | May 13, 2021

Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | May 12, 2021

Half Lives and Long Drives: <br>An Interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie

Half Lives and Long Drives:
An Interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie

In Conversation with Sara Elkamel and NYU Undergraduates

By Sara Elkamel | May 12, 2021

Reimagining the Ancient World: A Reading List

Reimagining the Ancient World: A Reading List

Ian Dreiblatt Fulfills a "Desire to Haunt Ancient Alleys" in These Seven Books

By Ian Dreiblatt | May 12, 2021

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