What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

What I Learned From Living With Joan Didion

Cory Leadbeater on His Life-Changing Friendship With a Literary Icon

By Cory Leadbeater | June 12, 2024

Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

“I discovered something different through the trauma. We learn to grieve by grieving.”

By Tomas Moniz | June 12, 2024

Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

Kill the Pet, Kill the Book’s Rating: The Perils of Writing Dogs in Fiction

Clare Pooley on Reviewers’ Tendency to Punish Novels with Dead Canines

By Clare Pooley | June 12, 2024

Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

Alan Townsend on Metamorphosis, Disintegration and Confronting His Fears As a Father

By Alan Townsend | June 12, 2024

1979’s <em>The Book-Store Book</em> documents a lost borough of booksellers.

1979’s The Book-Store Book documents a lost borough of booksellers.

By James Folta | June 11, 2024

New literary podcasts to add to your queue.

New literary podcasts to add to your queue.

By Brittany Allen | June 11, 2024

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Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

By Daniel José Older | June 11, 2024

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

By Corinne Fowler | June 11, 2024

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

Boyce Upholt on the Meaning and Use of Rivers and Other Waterways

By Boyce Upholt | June 11, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

By Rufi Thorpe | June 11, 2024

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

By James Folta | June 10, 2024

This retelling of <em>Pride & Prejudice</em> has five Mary Bennets.

This retelling of Pride & Prejudice has five Mary Bennets.

By James Folta | June 10, 2024

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Mac Crane Examines What It Means to Perform Identity on the Court

By Mac Crane | June 10, 2024

Here are the winners of the 2023 Nebula Awards.

Here are the winners of the 2023 Nebula Awards.

By Drew Broussard | June 10, 2024

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