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Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation
Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone
War, Confession, Political Reimagining: Five Essential Books by Kenyan Authors
On the Occasion of Nairobi Litfest Wanjeri Gakuru Recommends Joan Thatiah, Michelle Angwenyi, Billy Kahora, and More
Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship
Michael T. Luongo on the Loss of a Great Writer and Mentor
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Gary Shteyngart, King Tut, Helen Schulman, and More
The case against Substack. (ICYMI)
To stack or not to stack? This is the question.
If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior
A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon… Or Both?
“When you're disgustingly wealthy, your days don’t have to be touched by banal oppressors, like the office or public transportation.”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“A book about the destruction of bohemia and the nightmare of trying to live—let alone make art—with very little money.”
How Does a Critic Write a Novel About Critics?
Charlotte Runcie on the Symbiotic Relationship Between Artists and Those Who Review Them
The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education
Joanna Howard Explores the Impact of Her Mother’s Passion For Film on Her Own Storytelling
The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp
Tracy Slater on the Strange Fate of Mixed-Race Families in Prisons During World War II
Margaret Atwood and Ayad Akhtar on This Wonderful, Terrible World
live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference
Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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