• Literary Criticism

    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.”

     
    By Book Marks  April 25, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Danielle Dutton Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 25, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

    By History of Literature  April 25, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tracie McMillan on the Myth of Colorblindness

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 25, 2024
    The Cosmic Library

    Deborah Treisman on the Challenge of Identifying the American Short Story

    By The Cosmic Library   April 24, 2024
    On Reading

    How Music and Verse Can Spark Literary Passion in Reluctant Readers

    By Alicia D. Williams  April 24, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Relationships

    When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

    By Hazel Hayes  April 24, 2024
    The Writing Life

    The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

    By Justin Taylor  April 23, 2024
    Banned Books

    Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

    By Yan Lianke  April 23, 2024
    Publishing

    The Problem with Giant Book Preview Lists

    Maris Kreizman on One of the Necessary Evils of Book Coverage

    By Maris Kreizman  April 25, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Jane Smiley! Judi Dench! Amy Tan on birding! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 23, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 23, 2024
    literary criticism

    What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

    By Eleanor Johnson  April 22, 2024
    Best Short Stories 2024

    Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

    Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on the Importance of Finding the Unusual in the Ordinary

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  April 22, 2024
    Taylor Swift

    “Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

    By Leigh Stein  April 19, 2024
    Bookstores

    Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

    By Paul Yamazaki  April 19, 2024
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  April 19, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

    “Resets are necessary throughout a writing life.”

    By Julia Alvarez  April 19, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 18, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My “Friend” Keeps Sending Me Their Writing and I Need It To Stop: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 18, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 18, 2024
    On Grief

    Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

    “For most of my life, I’ve suffered in shame and silence while the men who hurt me got away scot-free.”

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy’s Mistakes

    By History of Literature  April 17, 2024
    On Reading

    The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

    By Elwin Cotman  April 16, 2024
    Shakespeare

    Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2024
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