• News and Culture

    Dance

    Jerome Robbins: Letters From a Young Artist Trying to Make It In New York

    By Jerome Robbins  October 3, 2019
    African Literature

    On a Progressive Platform for New African Literature

    By Anne-christine d’Adesky  October 3, 2019
    Poems

    ‘Columbine,’ A Poem by Javier Zamora

    By Javier Zamora  October 3, 2019
    The Hub

    PSA: Jim Carrey is writing a novel.

    By Katie Yee  October 2, 2019
    #MeToo

    Lacy Johnson: Men in Power and the
    Lies They Tell

    By Lacy M. Johnson  October 2, 2019
    Literary History

    Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

    By Lev Grossman  October 2, 2019
    The Labor Movement

    On One of the Great Unsung Heroes of the American Labor Movement

    By Stephen Harrigan  October 2, 2019
    Probability

    Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

    By Ian Stewart  October 2, 2019
    What to Read

    12 Books You Should Read
    This October

    By Literary Hub  October 2, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge

    By Interview with a Bookstore  October 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award.

    By Eleni Theodoropoulos  October 1, 2019
    The Hub

    Head over to The Believer for their new interactive comic feature by artist Matt Huynh.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 1, 2019
    The Hub

    8 brand new books you should pick up this week.

    By Emily Temple  October 1, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
    Journalism

    Why Newspaper “Scoops” Don’t Work in Narrative Nonfiction

    By Steve Luxenberg  October 1, 2019
    Economics

    Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

    By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
    Feminism

    Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
    The Hub

    Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.

    By Dan Sheehan  September 30, 2019
    The Hub

    Who’s going to take home Canada’s biggest cash prize for literature?

    By Katie Yee  September 30, 2019
    The Hub

    15 years after Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke is back.

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
    The Hub

    “There’s going to be a WeWork ‘The Book’”!? our office shrieked in shock and dismay.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 30, 2019
    Short story writers

    Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

    By Lauren Groff  September 30, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father’s Journey Home

    By Maya Phillips  September 30, 2019
    Writing Rules

    Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

    By Anthony Doerr  September 30, 2019
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