Essays

And Then Something Terrible Happened: William Steig’s Children’s Books

An essay on the darkness and longing at the heart of William Steig’s picture books. (The Hopkins Review)

Interviews

Ashley Wurzbacher

The author of Happy Like This discusses her debut collection, the complexity of female friendships, resisting gender narratives, and more. (Fiction Writers Review)

Danielle Lazarin

The author of Back Talk discusses debut collections, fury, and the high-low beauties of her native New York City. (Fiction Writers Review)

Joshua Furst

The author of Short People and The Sabotage Cafe discusses child narrators, Shakespeare, and subversion. His new novel, Revolutionaries, is out now. (Fiction Writers Review)

Aravind Adiga

The Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Between the Assassinations discusses modern India, Neo-realism, and the films of Ramin Bahrani. (Fiction Writers Review)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

The author of Picking Bones from Ash discusses different selves in different languages, Japan, travel fiction, and advice for writers at the beginning of a career. (Fiction Writers Review)

Jeffrey Rotter

The author of The Unknown Knowns discusses paranoia, comic books, and the mythical underwater kingdom of Nautika. (Fiction Writers Review)

Reviews

Rise by L. Annette Binder

(Fiction Writers Review)

Three Ways of the Saw by Matt Mullins

(Fiction Writers Review)

Alone with You by Marisa Silver

(Fiction Writers Review)

Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson

(Fiction Writers Review)

Prospect by Elizabeth Dodd

(The New York Times)

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

(The San Francisco Chronicle)

The Believers by Zoë Heller

(Fiction Writers Review)

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

(Fiction Writers Review)

Hunting from Home by Christopher Camuto

(The New York Times)

Crazy in the Kitchen by Louise DeSalvo

(The New York Times)