AS one looks forward to the America of fifty years hence, the main source of anxiety appears to be in a probable excess of prosperity, and in the want of a good grievance. We seem nearly at the end of ...

The growing popularity of the creative writing degree over the last 50 years has come with a growing critique of the institutionalization of writing. This discourse has often circled back to the same ...

Established as a nonprofit in 2016, Twelve’s roots go back farther, to Gray-Kontar’s time as the former chair of the Literary Arts Department at the Cleveland School of the Arts. Many of the program’s ...

Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The organization behind the Portland Book Festival is moving into a new building that is much bigger than its existing headquarters in the central city. On Monday, Portland ...

Book-based nonprofit Literary Arts is starting a new chapter with its new on-site cafe. Opening Saturday, June 14, at the Susan Hammer Center in Southeast Portland where it moved last year, the ...

Literary Arts, the Oregon nonprofit responsible for the Portland Book Festival, Portland Arts and Lectures, Oregon Book Awards, and Writers in the Schools programming for some 4,000 students annually, ...

The work to repair and revive this city, Andrew Proctor argues, won’t be sustained by a beguiling tagline or a misguided reunion with the past. “Portland is in an identity crisis. Our stories about ...

Literary Arts has announced an emergency fund for Oregon writers struggling in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Named after Brian Booth, who founded the Oregon Book Awards, the Booth Emergency ...

The Believer was once at the top of the literary magazine game. A leading journal of art and culture, The Believer published the work of icons like Leslie Jamison, Nick Hornby and Anne Carson. It won ...