• Literary Criticism

    Am I the Literary Asshole?

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

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

     
    By Jonny Diamond  April 18, 2024
    On Grief

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

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics

    By Fiction Non Fiction  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
    World War I

    How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

    By Michael Korda  April 16, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

    By Naomi Kanakia  April 16, 2024
    Audiobooks

    The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

    By Lissa Soep  April 16, 2024
    Women Writers

    The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree

    By Sarah McClung  April 15, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “Levine is a gifted performance artist of literary fiction—part French existentialist and part comic bomb-thrower.”

    By Book Marks  April 18, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 12, 2024
    Craft of Writing

    50 Ways to End a Poem

    By Emily Skaja  April 12, 2024
    Language

    Yes, But Can You Really Explain the Difference Between Morals and Ethics?

    By Eli Burnstein  April 12, 2024
    Queer Literature

    More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

    Kelly E. Hill on Women Defying Societal Norms in the Nineteenth Century

    By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

    By George Makari  April 11, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews to Read This Weeks

    By Book Marks  April 11, 2024
    Cultural Identity

    Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Subverting the Tropes of Greek Culture in Media

    By Henriette Lazaridis  April 11, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

    “Don’t be afraid of losing touch with the past. After all, you were there, living it.”

    By Dennis Tang  April 11, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    S.L. Wisenberg on How We Talk About Cancer

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 11, 2024
    True Crime

    Real People, Real Pain: On the Ethics of Telling True Stories of Trauma

    By Philip Eil  April 10, 2024
    Nature Writing

    What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

    Fiona Williams on Using Every Literary Tool Available to Us

    By Fiona Williams  April 10, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Oh, Queer Canada: A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History

    By Rose Sutherland  April 10, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

    By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

    By Steve Almond  April 15, 2024
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