Literature
The writer on her new novel, looking at the spectrum of privilege, and subverting female friendship tropes.
The writer on her new novel, looking at the spectrum of privilege, and subverting female friendship tropes.
Two new Lydia Davis stories on a collectible broadsheet.
The writer on her new novel, creative partnerships, sex as communication, and tending to old drafts.
The writer on writing about secrets, food as love language, and releasing a debut novel during a pandemic.
On writing mentally ill characters with nuance and how our identities shape the power relationships of our most intimate interactions.
The writer on writing about urban legends, gay life on the reservation, and why he created a happy ghost.
The debut novelist on the mercurial desires of teenage girls, the musicality of language, and embracing the digressive quality of the human mind.
The poet on his new collection, language as resistance, research as a starting point, and how the intimate suggests the epic.
The writer on his new book about the toll debt took on his life and the universal reality of his experience.
Lake Pred was no lake but a precondition, / predecessor assault that kept coming, / preterite arrest we couldn’t quit.
On writing secondhand trauma, cycles of behavior, and the loneliness of internalized homophobia.
The writer on her new poetry collection, rearranging the nervous system, and a fact’s capacity to contain its own strangeness.
Capitalism is fundamentally unsustainable. In the spring of 2020, the world began experiencing this fact more acutely than ever, as humankind struggled to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a career spanning over two decades, Wayne Koestenbaum has copped to a lot.
Bernadette Mayer’s Memory was never meant to be a book.
After researching climate change and survival psychology for her novel Weather, Offill asks if we might imagine a different way to live.
I have just read a diary entry from fifteen years ago, in which I wrote that I had just read some diary entries from many more years before that, written at a time when I was staying by myself in a small town near Caen, in Normandy.
The debut writer on complex characters, love stories, and how we code each other.
From epics to lyrics, Rowan Ricardo Phillips considers poetry’s reckoning with history and how writing will reflect our current crisis for future generations.
