• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Han Kang, American Orphanhood, Mavis Gallant, and More

     
    By Book Marks  January 24, 2025
    Literary Icons

    A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

    By Constance Roisin  January 24, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  January 23, 2025
    On Grief

    Matter, That Curious and Complex Illusion: Grieving for the Dead in a Universe of Atoms

    By Guido Tonelli  January 23, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 23, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 23, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Palestinian Literature

    Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

    By Betty Samieh  January 22, 2025
    Palestinian Literature

    Listening to Palestinian Silences: On Fady Joudah’s [. . .]

    By Eman Quotah  January 22, 2025
    In Conversation

    Sara Sligar on Modernizing an 18th-Century Literary Cult Classic

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 21, 2025
    Menopause

    Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

    Deborah Williams on Undine Spragg, Miranda July, and “Women of a Certain Age”

    By Deborah Williams  January 24, 2025
    Short Stories

    Chasing Mystery Through Fiction:
    On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  January 20, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  January 17, 2025
    Girlhood

    Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

    By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum  January 17, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

    James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

    By James H. Sweet  January 17, 2025
    Adaptations

    What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

    By Ariel Dorfman  January 16, 2025
    Publishing

    How to Talk About Your Own Book

    By Maris Kreizman  January 16, 2025
    Publishing

    We, the First Readers: On What It Means to Publish a Book

    By Luis Schwarcz  January 16, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

    By Book Marks  January 16, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 16, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

    By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    Carolyn Kellogg on Realizing the Value of the Irreplaceable

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    Forgery

    The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

    By Bradford Morrow  January 14, 2025
    Retellings

    From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

    By Maria Zoccola  January 14, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 21, 2025
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