Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on the Importance of Finding the Unusual in the Ordinary
Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing About Sex
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
Stacey D’Erasmo on the Art of Intimacy
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
Read Smart on Gardens Past and Present
In Conversation with Razia Iqbal on the Baillie Gifford Prize Podcast, Read Smart
“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom
Leigh Stein Considers Tavi Gevinson’s New Zine, “Fan Fiction”
Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore
“At a great store you can look at twelve well-selected, serendipitous linear inches and find a universe.”
The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara
Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring New Titles by Salman Rushdie, Caoilinn Hughes, Caleb Carr, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and More
How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time
For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”
Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again
“Resets are necessary throughout a writing life.”
How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany
Erin Zimmerman on How Botany Helped to Complicate Our Views of Gender
An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write
Rahul Mehta Considers the Virtues of Public Space as Writing Space
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