• Features

    American Literature

    What to Read Before and After The Adventures of Saul Bellow

    By Literary Hub  December 9, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Sam Lipsyte on the What and the How of Writing

    By Sam Lipsyte  December 9, 2022
    Russian Literature

    How Chekhov Made Sense of His Surroundings Through Writing Short Stories

    By Bob Blaisdell  December 9, 2022
    Keen On

    What the Early 20th-Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Best Reviewed Graphic Literature of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 9, 2022
    Mathematics

    Why Is a Raven Like a Writing-Desk? On the Uses and Limitations of Mathematical Models

    By Erica Thompson  December 9, 2022
    Illness

    Secrets and Sickness: When a Medical Emergency Reveals a Wife’s Long-Hidden History of Cancer

    By Barrett Rollins  December 9, 2022
    Keen On

    What Happens When a Novelist “Overparents” Their Characters? How to Avoid Helicopter Authoring

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Why All Writers, Especially Novelists, Are Political: Which is Why Novels Can Change the World

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
    Antisemitism

    Shame, Silence, and Family Secrets: How Enduring Antisemitism Created False Identities

    By Margaret K. Nelson  December 9, 2022
    Transnational Literature

    When Cultures Collide: In Praise of Transnational Literature

    By Elizabeth Shick  December 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Why, in Our Age of Permanent Volatility, We Need to Foster a Zen-Like “Deliberate Calm”

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
    Keen On

    Why World War II’s Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Pacifism As For Its Sacrifice in Battle

    By Keen On  December 9, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Talking to Brian Nishii About the 2022 Best Children and Family Listening

    By Behind the Mic   December 9, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 8, 2022
    What to Watch

    Damage Control: Why Are We Allowing Hollywood to Codify the #MeToo Movement?

    By Xandra Ellin  December 8, 2022
    Animals

    Part Bear, Part Bird, Part Monkey, Part Lizard: On the Deep Weirdness of Beavers

    By Leila Philip  December 8, 2022
    African Literature

    #ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless Literary Landscape

    By Literary Hub  December 8, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 8, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: “My Best Friend Has Terrible Taste in Men.”

    By Dorothea   December 8, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Evette Dionne: “Representation Isn’t Everything, But It’s Something”

    By The Maris Review  December 8, 2022
    Running

    What Running Has Taught Me About Writing (and Vice Versa)

    By Janice Obuchowski  December 8, 2022
    Criticism

    Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published

    By Jed Rasula  December 8, 2022
    Queer Lit

    Edgy, Unapologetic, and Transgressive: 8 Books That Seek to Unsettle the Reader

    By Kevin Lambert  December 8, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Talking to Deepti Gupta About the 2022 Best Young Adult Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 8, 2022
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