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James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes
"I’m writing this essay in the spirit of atonement. My ongoing biography should be revised to reflect this."
By
James Ellroy
| September 7, 2023
Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life
"Processes are a series of moments in passing."
By
Brendan Shay Basham
| September 7, 2023
"Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses": Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers
The Author of
Wednesday’s Child
on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury
By
Yiyun Li
| September 6, 2023
What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?
Lightsey Darst on the Eternal, Fleeting Moments of New Motherhood
By
Lightsey Darst
| August 31, 2023
Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft
From Sullivan Correctional Facility, Robert Lee Williams Muses on Access to Literature
By
Robert Lee Williams
| August 28, 2023
How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America
Drew Gilpin Faust on the Gradual Radicalization of Anti-War Student Activism
By
Drew Gilpin Faust
| August 24, 2023
Best Reviewed
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Dotted Lines: On Writing and Humiliation Under Iranian Censorship
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Moeen Farrokhi
| August 24, 2023
Letting a Psychic Into the Space Between Me and My Mother
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Kyo Maclear
| August 23, 2023
The Long, Winding, Booby-Trapped, and Occasionally Rewarding Road to Publication
By
Lou Mathews
| August 23, 2023
Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet
"The job makes the real work possible. The place you live is only as good as the life it allows."
By
Edgar Kunz
| August 22, 2023
Accounting for the Unaccountable: Daniel Johnson on Writing about His Friend, James Foley
On Memorializing a Meteoric Life After an Unimaginable Loss
By
Daniel Brock Johnson
| August 22, 2023
The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights
Laura Meckler on Belonging, Interracial Adoption, and the "American dream town" in Ohio
By
Laura Meckler
| August 22, 2023
None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist
Claire Stanford Considers the Answers to Questions of Racial Representation and Identification
By
Claire Stanford
| August 21, 2023
David Shih on Missing His Father's Death
"Although I’ve tried to own the fault entirely...I don’t think that take tells the whole story either."
By
David Shih
| August 21, 2023
"I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them": When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection
Brent Katz on Directing the Legendary Director
By
Brent Katz
| August 16, 2023
On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books
"I don’t get rid of them, per se; rather, I set them afloat, in search of new homes."
By
Lewis Buzbee
| August 16, 2023
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The Best Books of 2025: Historical Fiction
December 22, 2025
by
Molly Odintz
How Writing Workshops Can Help Formerly Incarcerated People Begin to Heal
December 22, 2025
by
J.D. Mathes
A Past Never Quite Dead: Why Historical Crime Fiction Is So Appealing
December 22, 2025
by
Thomas Dann
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller She is very good at creating a 'sense of anticipation…"