Features
6433 features in Affairs of the Art, Alice in Wordland, Art and Architecture, Biography & Memoir, Book Industry News, CapitaLetters, Classics, Considering the Classics, Contemporary/Literary, Cooking and Food, Decisions & Revisions, Fingism, Finglish, GBF13, Historical, History, Independent Voice, Literally Kind, Long Story Short, Mystery/Thriller/Detective, Nerd Volta, Podcasts, Poetry, Popular Culture, Prose as Profession, Ralphie’s Bookmobile, Science, Science Fiction, Snapshots, Text in the City, That’s What SHE Said: Lit Women Who Rock, The Company We Keep, The Write Stuff, Washington Writers Conference, Washington, D.C., Words For Thought, Write Now, Write Side Up, Young Adult, Alter States, Lupita Reads, Next Book, Girl Writing, A Column of Her Own, Small Talk, Creative Considerations, The Critical Reader, Spotlight Event, Book Club Hub, Rediscovered Treasures, Author Q&A, Beyond The Book, Book Blog, Book List, Book News, Essay, Independent Voice, Local, Podcast, Poetry Review, Video, Romance Roundup, Washington, DC, The One That Got Away, Cross-Examining History, Worth a Revisit, Children’s Books, And the Banned Played On
On the occasion of Jack Kerouac's would-be 91st birthday, Ronald Collins and David Skover examine his undying status as an American great.
We interviewed Arnold Rampersad, whose introduction to Eric Walrond's Tropic Death was recently published by Liveright.
Each year VIDA presents The Count, wherein they analyze, by gender, books reviewed and reviewers for major literary publications.
With the relaunch of "Slow Reads" as "Rediscovered Treasures," we're looking for books to feature. Tell us about a book that you love that might have been forgotten or overlooked.
William McPherson is a quintessential man of letters. He founded The Washington Post’s “Book World” and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for literary criticism. Then he swung around to the other side of the desk to write two beautiful and well received novels, Testing the Current (1984) and To the Sargasso Sea (1987).
Managing Editor Josh Trapani walks through the changes and features of the new website in this screencast.
February may be the shortest month of the year, but it was a busy month here at the Independent.
The New York Times recently published a piece heralding the rebirth of short stories, thanks to the increasing frequency of e-readers.
