No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

Monica Potts Ponders the Predestined Fates of Women in Small Town Arkansas

By Monica Potts | May 31, 2023

How Hugh Howey Imagines the Real World as a Science Fictional Version of Reality

How Hugh Howey Imagines the Real World as a Science Fictional Version of Reality

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 31, 2023

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

“Ideas don’t just spring out of nothing—they smolder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep.”

By Alba Donati | May 31, 2023

Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

Brett Forrest on the Tragic Human Collateral of the FBI’s secret wars

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 31, 2023

Read the first reviews of <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>.

Read the first reviews of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

By Dan Sheehan | May 30, 2023

ChatGPT is basically a Gen X’er who stopped reading in 12th grade.

ChatGPT is basically a Gen X’er who stopped reading in 12th grade.

By Jonny Diamond | May 30, 2023

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Critics really hate Josh Hawley's stupid book about manhood.

By Dan Sheehan | May 30, 2023

One great short story to read today: Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Man to Send Rain Clouds."

By Emily Temple | May 30, 2023

Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence

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On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

David Chrisinger Looks at Ernie Pyle’s Brave Men

By David Chrisinger | May 30, 2023

From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

From a Rural Mexican Village to Creating Haute Cuisine in the Big City

Laura Tillman Explores the Complexities and Anxieties of Migrant Chef Lalo García

By Laura Tillman | May 30, 2023

Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

Queer History Detective: On the Power of Uncovering Stories from the Past

Amelia Possanza Researches the Mysteries of the Queer Writer Mary Casal and Other Long-Hidden LGBTQ Lives

By Amelia Possanza | May 30, 2023

Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

Luis Alberto Urrea on Creating Fiction From Family History

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Good Night, Irene

By Jane Ciabattari | May 30, 2023

Boyce Upholt: Legal Protections for the Saguaro Cactus and Recognizing the Dignity of All Life

Boyce Upholt: Legal Protections for the Saguaro Cactus and Recognizing the Dignity of All Life

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | May 30, 2023

Mona Simpson on Reimagining Mental Health Hospitals in Her New Novel

Mona Simpson on Reimagining Mental Health Hospitals in Her New Novel

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 30, 2023

Paul Schrader’s <em>Master Gardener</em> Doesn’t See the Forest for the Trees

Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener Doesn’t See the Forest for the Trees

The Third of Schrader's “God's Lonely Men” Trilogy Promises a Fruitful Plot but Is Sadly Under-Seeded

By Olivia Rutigliano | May 26, 2023

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