August 4 – 8, 2025
- Writing James Baldwin’s life as a love story
- Advice for pitching translations in a bleak market
- Roy Scranton considers life in a perpetual apocalypse
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Reflects on the Most Important Historical Project of Our Generation
In Conversation with Channler Twyman on Five Years of "The 1619 Project"
A definitive ranking of Brat Pack movies.
In honor of Andrew McCarthy's documentary.
The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer
Levi Vonk on Summer Brenner's "Dust" and the Necessary Work of Writing About the South
How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction
“We are all unreliable narrators, recounting our stories through the filters of perception and memory.”
Ananda Lima on Conquering Pre-Publication Anxiety With Crafting
“I had to let go of my fear or embarrassment. Make mistakes, have things look a little wonky. Laugh at myself.”
Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language
Priyanka Mattoo on the Complexities of Living in a Multicultural Family
How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion
Tiya Miles on the Famed Abolitionist’s Early Spiritual Education
Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality
“I wanted something that I could claim as my own, something steeped in who I was as a person.”
Morgan Talty on Rejecting “Exoticized Foreknowledge”
In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But
How Joni Mitchell Pioneered Her Own Form of Artistic Genius
Ann Powers on the Long and Continuing Struggle of Women Artists For Recognition On Their Own Terms
Francine Prose on the Unfinished Sexual Revolution of the 1970s
“We were not supposed to notice the gap between what we were supposed to feel and what we felt.”
In the Beginning… Why Every Novel Needs an Origin Story
Patrick Nathan on the Process of Creating New Fictional Universes
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