Interview

Back Draft: Martín Espada

By Ben Purkert, Martín Espada, and Donald Hall August 12, 2019

The poet discusses his relationship with the late Donald Hall and the power of art, incarnate.

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Review

Their Daughters Were Having Cats Instead of Children

By Jenessa Abrams July 22, 2019

A new collection of Bette Howland's short stories restores a powerful voice to the canon.

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Interview

Helen Phillips: “Living with the awareness of the abyss is probably a good thing.”

By Mary Wang July 19, 2019

The writer discusses why motherhood lends itself perfectly for speculative fiction—and the album that helped her during writing and labor.

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Interview

Ayesha Harruna Attah: “I Write to Find out Who I Am”

By Arvind Dilawar July 5, 2019

How the discovery of an ancestor named only “the slave” inspired the Ghanaian author’s latest novel

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Interview

Wayne Koestenbaum: “I use obscene as a term of praise.”


By Mirene Arsanios July 2, 2019

Critic, essayist, and poet Wayne Koestenbaum talks about the reissue of his only novel to date, Circus, while offering a glimpse of his art works, unpublished writings, and family archive.

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Interview

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Writing to Re-member

By Helen Scott June 17, 2019

The author discusses the refugee crisis, US foreign policy, and the problem of ‘narrative scarcity’ for marginalized and minority populations.

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Essay

How I Wrote Certain of My (Fake) Poems

By Lucy Ives June 14, 2019

The author of Loudermilk reflects on “the weirdest form of history writing” she's ever done.

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Review

Guadalupe Nettel and the Extraterritoriality of Latin America

By Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Samuel Rutter May 23, 2019

In “After the Winter,” the novelist imagines a new relationship with ghosts, literary and otherwise.

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Review

In Search of an Ending

By Adam Dalva May 13, 2019

T Kira Madden's Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls charts a new path forward for millennial memoirs.

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Interview

Sheila Heti: “All of Living is Thinking”

By Kelley Deane McKinney May 7, 2019

The author discusses Judaism, visual art, and “the annoying, circular thinking that happens alongside living.”

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Interview

Laila Lalami: Home Is An In-Between World

By Anjali Enjeti May 1, 2019

The writer on migration, bigotry, and the inheritance of loss.

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