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  • The ten best books of the last decade
  • Symposium: how can reviewing be made relevant for the new generation?
  • Favorite poems
  • Symposium: what is the present state of American poetry?
  • Have feminist poets kept up with the legacy of Sylvia Plath? A reassessment fifty years later
  • White House poetry reading leaked! Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander, and the secret rejection letter
  • Symposium: short stories vs. novels-which is the more rewarding form and why?
  • Is there a short story renaissance in America? Interview with Harper Perennial editor Calvert Morgan
  • The last good 9/11 novel: interview with Teddy Wayne
  • Should writing try to humanize particular groups of people?
  • Symposium: what is distinctive about Arab-American writing today?
  • Cormac McCarthy's The road: doing apocalypse the Southern way
  • Why Salman Rushdie so richly deserves the Nobel Prize in literature
  • Symposium response: is American literature too insular?
  • Symposium: who is the most important contemporary fiction writer?
  • We are all neoliberals now: the new genre of plastic realism in contemporary American fiction
  • The Pakistani novel of class comes of age: Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in rising Asia
  • The millennial generation's literary escapism toward the end of empire: Dave Eggers's A hologram for the king.
  • Orhan Pamuk's original contribution to the theory of the novel: the naive and the sentimental novelist
  • Symposium response: how do religious or spiritual beliefs affect my writing?
  • What is the appeal of detective fiction? Dashiell Hammett's The continental op as a test case
  • Symposium: who is the most important contemporary poet?
  • Creative writing finally gets the satire it deserves: interview with John McNally
  • Thoughts for AWP week: the glut in creative writing is the reverse side of the drought in the humanities
  • The writer as confidence man: the heart versus the mind in James Magnuson's wily novel of creative writing
  • New rules for writers
  • Symposium: how are America's little magazines coping with technological and economic change?
  • How to put together a successful poetry anthology: Ryan G. van Cleave on the challenges of summing up contemporary Chicago
  • What must indie presses do today to survive and thrive? Wings Press of San Antonio shows the way
  • Paul Ruffin on the role of Texas Review Press in the southern literary scene.
  • Symposium: what is good or bad about southern writing today?
  • How can indie bookstores succeed in the new economy? San Antonio's Twig Book Shop as a case study
  • A fabled indie press reaches maturity: what can we learn from the experience of Coffee House Press?
  • How does a successful university press work? Behind the scenes with Princeton University Press director Peter Dougherty
  • Symposium: have online literary journals come of age?
  • How can poetry become eclectic, global, and diverse? Interview with New York Quarterly editor Raymond Hammond
  • The three best books of 2013
  • Symposium: what goes into the making of an outstanding book cover?
  • A manifesto against authors writing for free.