Rather than share craft essays here, which are plentiful across the web if that's what you're looking for, I thought I would include some interesting recent essays on a different aspects of creative writing and literature that challenge some of the received wisdoms about the history, practice, and effects of prose fiction. 

'The Philosophy of Creative Writing' by Joseph Darda for Los Angeles Review of Books

'Writing Machines: Tom McCarthy on Realism and the Real' for London Review of Books

'The Banality of Empathy' by Namwali Serpell for The New York Review