For Women’s History Month - “Cherchez la Femme”

For Women’s History Month, we set out to “look for the woman” in some of the new books hitting the bookstores.

Book Covers: The Good, The Bad, and The Duplicative

"You can't judge a book by its cover" might apply to people, but it probably doesn't apply to books.

Exemplars: Poetry Reviews by Grace Cavalieri

A monthly column reviewing recent books of poems and books about poetry.

What is Memoir?

Memoir is the genre du jour, the one people talk about, get upset about, or want to write themselves. Memoir is such a buzz word that it gets slapped on personal stories, whether applicable or not.

Happy 80th, Philip Roth!

Philip Roth turns 80 today, and despite his recent retirement from writing, he's more in the spotlight than ever.

Interview with John Balcom

A past president of the American Literary Translators Association, John Balcom has translated and published more than a dozen books into English from Chinese. Linda Morefield interviewed John about his recent translation of Trees Without Wind, by Li Rui.

I Lost My Novel To The Internet

Writers aren’t the only ones struggling these days, you know: technological distractions are a productivity challenge for everyone.

Interview with Leslie Maitland

Leslie Maitland’s Crossing the Borders of Time is a story that is too good to be true: a saga of escape and survival and of star-crossed lovers, separated by the Holocaust and family intervention.