Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction

Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Sacrament

By Jane Ciabattari | October 28, 2025

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of the Year

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of the Year

The Seven Finalists for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Dish on Their Reading and Writing Lives

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Adam Johnson on Writing a Novel of Ancient Polynesia

Adam Johnson on Writing a Novel of Ancient Polynesia

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Wayfinder”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 21, 2025

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Unveiling”

By Jane Ciabattari | October 14, 2025

What <em>Hedda</em> Reveals About the Timelessness of Feminine Rage

What Hedda Reveals About the Timelessness of Feminine Rage

Hannah Bonner Talks to Director Nia DaCosta About Her Cinematic Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Play

By Hannah Bonner | October 10, 2025

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Ilan Stavans | September 29, 2025

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Jonathan Lethem on Revisiting Old Short Stories While Writing New Ones

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Fonseca”

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Eric Puchner on Humor, Craft, and Creating “Perfect Ambivalence” on the Page

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The Author of “Dream State” in Conversation with Jessie Gaynor

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Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

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Rachel Deutsch Talks to Teresa Wong, Becky Barnicoat and Mary Catherine Starr

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Ivonne Lamazares on Crafting a Story of Family, Identity and Belonging in Cuba

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Tilting House”

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Gary Shteyngart on Channeling a Precocious Child Narrator

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Vera, or Faith”

By Jane Ciabattari | July 8, 2025

Meg Waite Clayton on Fictionalizing Hollywood’s Blacklist Era

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Typewriter Beach”

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Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

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