July 17, 2025
- When a book is a house
- Close-reads the promises of A.I. commercials
- John J. Lennon on consuming true crime in prison
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Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books
Literary Executor Theo Downes-Le Guin on What That Means For Readers, Past and Future
“Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book
Or: How to Survive the Metaphorical Oncoming Bus That Is Your Book Launch
Why Philip Roth, Why Now?
Answers from Susan Choi, Ayad Akhtar, and Other Participants of “Philip Roth Unbound: Illuminating a Literary Legacy” Festival
“That’s Just Playground Ball.” On Racism and Basketball in the 1970s
Theresa Runstedtler on the Proliferation of Black Players in Professional Basketball
Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders
Jesse Lee Kercheval Tries to Figure Out Where Life Ends and Fiction Begins
Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth
Dani Shapiro on Revisiting Her Book on Craft a Decade On
Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction
From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?
From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon
Regan Penaluna on Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Anna Julia Cooper, and More
The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life
Samuel Ligon Explores the Function of Time in Worlds Real and Imagined
Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, The Human Stain, and a Novelist’s Right to Tell Other People’s Stories
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
9 Must-Reads for Lovers (and Haters) of The Last of Us
From the Science of Fungi to the Collapse of Civilization, a Book For Everyone!
In Honor of International Women’s Day: 8 Ways to Love Little Women
Jess deCourcy Hinds on a Lifetime of Reading the Girlhood Classic
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