• Literary Criticism

    In Memoriam

    A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer

    Nick Ripatrazone Revisits the Work of a Wounded Heart

     
    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 4, 2025
    Aging

    Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

    By Douglas J. Penick  April 3, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 3, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 3, 2025
    American Literature

    American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing

    By Ed Simon  April 2, 2025
    literary criticism

    Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

    By Anthony Giardina  April 2, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Short Stories

    Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad

    By Rachel Kushner  April 1, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Jeanne Thornton! Amy Gerstler! Videogame memoirs! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 1, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Missing Time by Ari Brostoff

    By Brittany Allen  March 31, 2025
    Remembrances

    Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

    Nancy Kricorian on Memorializing Her Armenian Grandmother in a Novel

    By Nancy Kricorian  April 4, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Ten New Children’s Books That Reveal the Wondrous Act of Storytelling

    By Caroline Carlson  March 31, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Gatsby, Bluebeard, and the Roys Walk Into a TBR: April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  March 31, 2025
    Poets in Conversation

    Art, Liberty, Diverse Voices: Six Poets on Why University Presses Are Critical for Poetry

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    Poetry

    Unhappy National Poetry Month: Seven Poetry Books to Read This April

    Christopher Spaide Recommends Esther Kondo Heller, Jack Saebyok Jung, Antonio Gamoneda and More

    By Christopher Spaide  March 31, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    March’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  March 30, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  March 30, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Point Zero by Seichō Matsumoto

    By Molly Odintz  March 28, 2025
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of April

    The Month in Listening to Literature

    By AudioFile Magazine  March 28, 2025
    Book Covers

    The 13 Best Book Covers of March

    By Emily Temple  March 28, 2025
    Paperbacks

    Maggie Nelson! Julia Alvarez! Claire Lombardo! 25 new books out in paperback this April.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 28, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    The Fisherman by John Langan

    By Drew Broussard  March 27, 2025
    Women Writers

    Good For Her: On the Reductive Meta-Storylines About Women’s Writing

    Tara Yazdan Panah Considers Vanity and Allegory

    By Tara Yazdan Panah  March 27, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 27, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Earthquake Anxiety:
    Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

    By Emma Pattee  March 27, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
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