Reading Lists
The Coolest Literary Tattoos on the Internet
We asked our readers to send us their book inspired tattoos and they delivered
Sep 24 - McKayla Coyle
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Yiyun Li on Starting a Virtual Book Club During the Pandemic
The author on the unifying experience of reading Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" during an uncertain time
Sep 15 - Annie Liontas
Interviews
We All Live on Slack Now
Calvin Kasulke's work from home novel "Several People Are Typing" questions whether our colleagues are just disembodied avatars on the internet
Sep 8 - McKayla Coyle
Interviews
Finding Self-Worth by Stalking Your Instagram Crush IRL
Beth Morgan, author of "A Touch of Jen," on how social media changes the way we see ourselves
Sep 7 - Richa Kaul Padte
Interviews
A Rwandan-Namibian Millennial Tries to Find Himself in Cape Town
Rémy Ngamije, author of "The Eternal Audience of One," on the literary scene in Namibia and writing a novel about immigrant life in Africa
Sep 2 - Frances Yackel
Interviews
A Seven Year, 9,000-Mile Journey Along India’s Contested Land Borders
Suchitra Vijayan’s "Midnight’s Borders" follows the lives of people in the borderlands facing displacement and state-sanctioned violence
Aug 31 - Namrata Poddar
Interviews
Tara Campbell Doesn’t Think You Need to Fix Every Critique
Ten questions about teaching writing with the author of "TreeVolution"
Aug 27 - Electric Literature
Advice
A Burmese American Family History That Weaves Legacy, Mythology, and Ghosts
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, author of "Names for Light," on writing an experimental memoir about what binds a family together
Aug 26 - Raksha Vasudevan
Interviews
A Black Woman’s Quest to Trace Her Lineage
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois," on ancestral legacy and grieving the loss of land
Aug 24 - Donna Hemans
Interviews
A Meditation of Longing and Loss Set in Post-War Sri Lanka
Anuk Arudpragasam on his Booker Prize short-listed novel "A Passage North"
Aug 23 - Vignesh Ramachandran
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