Literary Criticism Is Dead
February 17, 2014Theme Essay by Ron MacLean
The online reading public has made clear that it does not want tastemakers telling them what to like.
Talking Writing Magazine
Alicia Ostriker: Poem
February 17, 2014TW Poetry Spotlight
You are an island, a granite crust on a black platter of rivers...
Muriel Rukeyser: Beyond Safe Subjects
February 17, 2014Introduction to "Honoring Rukeyser" by Carol Dorf
When I first read U.S.1, the sure hand of this very young poet amazed me.
How a Literary Critic Slapped Me Awake
February 14, 2014"My Favorite Critic" by David Meischen
Leslie Fiedler took the blinders off me and said, 'Look, the myths we live by, our secret longings—the great books lay them bare.'
TW E-News: Winter 2014
February 12, 2014Quarterly Newsletter
Are you going to AWP 2014? Check out TW's panels on 'Literary Politics,' 'First-Person Journalism,' "Digital Lit'—and more.
Quality, Schmality—Indie Lit Rocks!
February 10, 2014TW Column by David Biddle
Literature happens not because editors and academics give it the nod, but because a writer puts her whole self on the page.
Eveline Pye: Four Poems
February 5, 2014TW Featured Poet
a white tower of spray punctures the blue sky
