Literature

Illinois became the first state in the United States to pass legislation to end book bans. Signed by Governor JB...

June 12, 2023, 9:32am Last week, Elizabeth Gilbert announced the forthcoming publication of The Snow Forest, a novel set in...

It’s not a spoiler to say that one woman whips out a switchblade, or that another’s boozy airplane ride leads...

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The Columbia River Bar is the violent meeting of the twelve-hundred-mile-long Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, the site of...

They say it’s what’s on the inside the counts—except, of course, when you are a book cover, and your entire...

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“Every novelist’s life has taken place during times of turmoil.” Jane Smiley considers how the essay and the novel inform each...

Hours before my toddler announces daybreak with her cry, when the night shadows start to play their old tricks on...

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June 9, 2023, 11:21am The trailer opens with Richard E. Grant growling that “great writers … steal” (Aaron Sorkin stole...

I came to writing at thirty—after touring the worlds of fashion editorial and luxury public relations, after doing a master’s...

This might actually win the award for the bleakest story in the Collected—a sentence I suspect I’ve written at least three...

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I’d come to relish night hiking. In this and many ways, forest activism awakens the senses. Traipse across miles of...

I don’t experience my dreams from a first-person point of view. My gaze exists only as a third-person stranger at...