If you're examining how reliable an ancient or mediaeval text is, the app crit is your best friend. But reading it takes practice.

Two years spent in an MFA program, in other words, constitute a tiny and often ineffectual part of the American writer’s lifelong engagement with the university. And yet critics continue to bemoan the mechanizing effects of the programs, and to draw links between a writer’s degree-holding status and her degree of aesthetic freedom. Get out of the schools and live!

I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Basically, I feel about it as towards new fiction from...

Philip Roth reviews his own biographer

Artist Heather Benjamin discusses the importance of homemade zines, why she continues to switch up her process, the complications of running your own business, and why art school wasn't useful.

Literary Lingo While serving in World War II, Joseph Heller concluded that war was a farce in which anyone crazy enough to shirk combat was considered sane enough to fight. That became the theme of…

When a book passes into the public domain, it means not only that it’s available for adapting and remixing, but for reprinting and reselling with a brand new cover. Some of these covers are .…

The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”

The problem is I can’t make up my mind about confession.