• Literary Criticism

    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “For me it was cathartic, almost spiritual, to have these ugly truths articulated.”

     
    By Book Marks  February 27, 2025
    Arab Literature

    Ten Essential Novels That Showcase the Rich Literary Culture of the Middle East

    By Nussaibah Younis  February 27, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Suzette Mayr and Kai Thomas on Canada Versus Trump

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 27, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Dionne Brand on José Saramago’s Seeing

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 26, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

    By Andrea Barrett  February 26, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Lit From the Chocolate City: Ten Washington D.C Books That Aren’t About Politicians

    By Charlotte Taylor Fryar  February 26, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Meghan O’Rourke on the Glitzy Bits

    By The Critic and Her Publics   February 25, 2025
    Campus Novels

    In Praise of Wonder Boys (Both the Book AND the Movie)

    By Ed Simon  February 25, 2025
    Retellings

    Non-Canon Compliant: In Praise of Classic Lit Fan Fiction

    By Allison Epstein  February 25, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Bridges to a Misunderstood World: Seven Memoirs That Show the Many Sides of Cuba

    Rebe Huntman Recommends Ruth Behar, Daisy Hernández, Alma Gillermoprieto, and More

    By Rebe Huntman  February 27, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 25, 2025
    In Conversation

    Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

    By Emma Copley Eisenberg  February 24, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Just a Little Blip: A Conversation with Sheila Heti

    By Fiona Warnick  February 24, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elaine Equi on Blankness, Condensing Verse, and the Joy of Writing Short Poems

    The Author of “Out of the Blank” in Conversation with Poets.org

    By Literary Hub  February 24, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 21, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

    By Eric Puchner  February 21, 2025
    In Conversation

    Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

    By Eli Zuzovsky  February 21, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

    Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel

    By Madeleine Watts  February 20, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 20, 2025
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 20, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 20, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

    In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 20, 2025
    Adaptations

    RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

    By Brittany Allen  February 19, 2025
    Walking

    How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought

    By Annabel Abbs  February 19, 2025
    Recipes

    Pistachio Kulfi Inspired by Asha Thanki’s A Thousand Times Before

    By Evan Hanczor  February 25, 2025
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