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Literary Criticism

Paperbacks

20 new paperbacks hitting shelves this April.

 
By Gabrielle Bellot  March 31, 2023
What to Watch

How One Young Screenwriter Snagged the Rights to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

By Amy Paturel  March 31, 2023
Author Interviews

How Octavia Butler’s Kindred Became a Novel

By Michael Silverblatt  March 31, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Grant Faulkner on Capturing the Essence of a Short Story

By Grant Faulkner  March 31, 2023
What to Watch

FX’s Great Expectations Doesn’t Measure Up

By Olivia Rutigliano  March 31, 2023
Rereadings

Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red is Way Funnier Than You Remember

By Emily Temple  March 30, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Book Covers

The 11 Best Book Covers of March

By Emily Temple  March 30, 2023
Craft

Exit Strategies: So How Are You Supposed to End a Story?

By Allegra Hyde  March 30, 2023
What to Watch

The Big Door Prize Masters the Art of Comedy-Spiked Pathos

By Alexis Gunderson  March 30, 2023
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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

Featuring New Titles by Eleanor Catton, Catherine Lacey, Matthew Desmond, Sebastian Barry, and More

By Book Marks  March 31, 2023
The Maris Review

Idra Novey: I Didn’t Want to Write an Obituary for Appalachia

By The Maris Review  March 30, 2023
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Clint Smith is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  March 30, 2023
Fiction/Non/Fiction

The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories

By Fiction Non Fiction  March 30, 2023
Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A graveside elegy on the edge of the burn pit that used to be—if only aspirationally—a democracy"

By Book Marks  March 30, 2023
In Conversation

Allegra Hyde Offers an Existential Pitch for Saving the Planet

By Keen On  March 30, 2023
The South

Untold Stories: A South Carolina Lowcountry Reading List

By Preslaysa Williams  March 30, 2023
The Hub

Literary baby names ranked from least to most cringey.

By Janet Manley  March 29, 2023
Behind the Book Cover

“Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

How Jason Booher’s Uses Color to Create Light

By Jason Booher  March 29, 2023
Children's Lit

On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

By Leonard S. Marcus  March 29, 2023
Damian Barr's Literary Salon

Kelly Link Reads from Her New Short Story Collection White Cat, Black Dog

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  March 29, 2023
Reading Lists

Life in the Aftermath: Books That Explore What Happens After Things Go Wrong

By Tara Conklin  March 29, 2023
Thresholds

Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft on the Double-Edged Sword of Being “the First”

In Conversation with Guest Host Mira Jacob on Thresholds

By Thresholds   March 29, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

Divine Poetry: Katherine Rundell Shines a Light on John Donne

By Malcolm Borthwick  March 29, 2023
Apocalypse

A Novel is Like a Camp: What Fiction Can Teach Us About Surviving the Slow Apocalypse

By Jess Row  March 28, 2023
Craft

Ayad Akhtar on the Expectations of Artists

By Ayad Akhtar  March 30, 2023
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