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This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay
Patrick Madden (and 5 Other Writers) Try an Experiment
By
Patrick Madden
| April 1, 2020
On Sorrow, Roadside Shrines, and the Brushed Steel Stereo From My 1987 Nissan Maxima
Ander Monson Considers the Elegies All Around Us
By
Ander Monson
| February 19, 2020
Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020
Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| February 7, 2020
The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
By
Emily Temple
| December 23, 2019
Here are PEN America's 2020 literary awards longlists.
By
Eleni Theodoropoulos
| December 13, 2019
Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?
Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, and the Use of Form to
Investigate Truth and Death
By
Johanna Skibsrud
| October 3, 2019
Best Reviewed
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On the Reclamation of Australian Aboriginal and Native American Identity
By
Reading Women
| September 18, 2019
Rebecca Solnit: How Change Happens
By
Rebecca Solnit
| September 3, 2019
How to Review a Novel
By
Mary-Kay Wilmers
| August 27, 2019
NPR: The world is on fire but these books are funny.
By
Corinne Segal
| August 20, 2019
Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Essay Collections
Rebecca Solnit, Elena Ferrante, and Other Fall Favorites
By
Literary Hub
| August 20, 2019
Laura Lippman just signed a massive 5-book deal, which includes her first work of nonfiction.
By
Emily Temple
| July 18, 2019
Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.
The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious
By
Antoine Compagnon
| June 27, 2019
The Bald Eagle: National Symbol, Rockstar... Dubious Moral Character?
Lia Purpura on Four Eagles in Her Life
By
Lia Purpura
| April 5, 2019
Joy Williams' Ecological Call to Arms Is As Urgent As Ever
Amy Hempel on
Ill Nature
By
Amy Hempel
| March 28, 2019
Against Catharsis: Writing is Not Therapy
T Kira Madden Wants You to See the Wires
By
T Kira Madden
| March 22, 2019
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Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
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Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"