“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness

By Chronicle Books | December 11, 2025

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

From Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

Marco Rubio’s State Department has deleted Calibri and installed Times New Roman.

Marco Rubio’s State Department has deleted Calibri and installed Times New Roman.

By James Folta | December 10, 2025

Three books to read if you too are rewatching <em> Mad Men. </em>

Three books to read if you too are rewatching Mad Men.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.

Here’s why writers are raging about the Netflix-WB merger.

By Brittany Allen | December 10, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

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On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

By Nadia Davids | December 10, 2025

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

By Marion Winik | December 10, 2025

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

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The year’s best literary podcasts.

The year’s best literary podcasts.

By Brittany Allen | December 9, 2025

Announcing the winner of the Restless Books 2025 Kellman Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

Announcing the winner of the Restless Books 2025 Kellman Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2025

Here are the winners of the Whiting Foundation’s 2025 Nonfiction Grant.

Here are the winners of the Whiting Foundation’s 2025 Nonfiction Grant.

By Literary Hub | December 9, 2025

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

Scott Saul on a Little-Known Essay by California’s Famed Chronicler of the Counterculture

By Scott Saul | December 9, 2025

How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats

How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats

Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses

By Susannah Fullerton | December 9, 2025

The Far Side of Disaster: <br>On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel <em>To the Lighthouse</em>

The Far Side of Disaster:
On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse

Colin Dickey: “It reminds me that others have struggled with how to write through the end of the world.”

By Colin Dickey | December 9, 2025

You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.

You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.

By James Folta | December 8, 2025

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