What Running Has Taught Me About Writing (and Vice Versa)

What Running Has Taught Me About Writing (and Vice Versa)

“Stay focused on what’s just ahead...”

By Janice Obuchowski | December 8, 2022

Why (Most) Critics Hated <em>The Waste Land</em> When It Was Published

Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published

“It is an erudite despair."

By Jed Rasula | December 8, 2022

Edgy, Unapologetic, and Transgressive: 8 Books That Seek to Unsettle the Reader

Edgy, Unapologetic, and Transgressive: 8 Books That Seek to Unsettle the Reader

Kevin Lambert Recommends Books That Resist Easy Interpretation

By Kevin Lambert | December 8, 2022

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

“When I discovered Butler’s work, I discovered myself.”

By Jesmyn Ward | December 7, 2022

Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

Sara B. Franklin on the Reading That Mattered Most to Her Family

By Sara B. Franklin | December 7, 2022

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“I have tried existing, and I do not like it. I would like to give it up.”

By Darcey Steinke | December 7, 2022

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Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

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Cherríe Moraga on Writing About Queer Motherhood

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How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet

How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet

Chloe Sorvino in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

Esther Woolfson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 7, 2022

On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

By Emily Temple | December 6, 2022

In <em>The Super 8 Years</em>, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

Julia Sirmons on Maternal Performance and the Growth of an Artist, Captured in Family Home Movies

By Julia Sirmons | December 6, 2022

Cliff Bleszinski on Finding Lifelong Happiness and Eventual Success in Video Games

Cliff Bleszinski on Finding Lifelong Happiness and Eventual Success in Video Games

“Being a gamer was me, who I was. I couldn’t change that. Why would I even want to?”

By Cliff Bleszinski | December 6, 2022

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

Scientific, Sexual and Sentimental: What Frida Kahlo Saw in the Orchid

Erica Hannickel on an Artist's Plant-Filled Life

By Erica Hannickel | December 6, 2022

Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

Jennifer S. Cheng on the "Distance Between a Sound and its Meaning"

By Jennifer S. Cheng | December 6, 2022

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