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Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood
“I was made dangerously permeable so my babies could be born.”
By
Jessica Moore
| December 7, 2023
Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction
“Once I wanted poetry to save me. From what? For what is the better question.”
By
Christian Wiman
| December 5, 2023
Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief
Gabriel Bump on His Characters' Personal Tragedy, and His Own
By
Gabriel Bump
| December 4, 2023
Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image
Mara Naselli Considers the Visceral Visual Violence of the Artist’s Oeuvre
By
Mara Naselli
| November 29, 2023
Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father
"I write because I want to continue my father, not contain him."
By
Sheila Squillante
| November 29, 2023
A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories
“It’s funny, how sometimes the things you know for sure can still surprise you.”
By
Jessica Strawser
| November 29, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
One Night at Mable Peabody’s, The Last Gay Bar in Denton, Texas
By
Lucas Hilderbrand
| November 22, 2023
Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters
By
Benjamin Moser
| November 20, 2023
How a Musical Adaptation of Tolstoy Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic
By
Theodore Wheeler
| November 20, 2023
On Learning to Ride a Motorcycle After Fifty
Kim McLarin on Why It's Never Too Late to Feel Dangerous and Accomplished
By
Kim McLarin
| November 17, 2023
Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books
"We go to books for solace, and for proof, to begin again at the beginning."
By
Beth Kephart
| November 16, 2023
Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet
"This spring, I fell in love with John Gower, who died in 1408."
By
Katherine Churchill
| November 15, 2023
Extreme Ithacans: James Elkins on the Joy of Immersion in a Place
Remembrances of a Childhood Spent in Exploration
By
James Elkins
| November 15, 2023
Sacred Space: Why Libraries Are Essential to Incarcerated Writers
Warren Bronson on Reading Within Prison Walls
By
Warren Bronson
| November 14, 2023
Is There Any Bond Stronger than Twinship?
History, Mythology and Literature Say No
By
Helena de Bres
| November 8, 2023
How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth
Grace Elizabeth Hale Explores Racial Violence and Individual and Collective Complicity in the American South
By
Grace Elizabeth Hale
| November 8, 2023
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How Thomas Harris 'Found' His Iconic Serial Killer, Hannibal Lecter
February 10, 2026
by
Brian Raftery
Trapped and Terrified: 6 Novels That Use Isolation to Create Horror
February 10, 2026
by
Saratoga Schaefer
Yosha Gunasekera on Ethics, Erasure, and the Human Cost of True Crime
February 10, 2026
by
Yosha Gunasekera
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Dark richly layered That is what reading em Mass Mothering em is like using storytelling…"