• Literary Criticism

    What to Watch

    Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material

    By Ryan Coleman  June 8, 2022
    Thresholds

    Elissa Washuta on Reckoning with the Insoluble Puzzles of the Universe

    By Thresholds   June 8, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Not Your Stock Grandma: On a Refreshing (and Relatable) Character in Dicey’s Song

    By NewberyTart   June 8, 2022
    Summer reading

    9 Short Story Collections You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  June 7, 2022
    new books tuesday

    Take a break and check out these 21 new books.

    By Katie Yee  June 7, 2022
    Climate Fiction

    Why All Fiction is Climate Fiction Now

    By Nishant Batsha  June 7, 2022
    Parenthood

    Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children’s Book Authors

    By Keith Gessen  June 7, 2022
    Travel Writing

    How a 1970s Literary Travelogue Can Transform Us All

    By David Santos Donaldson  June 7, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Sasha Fletcher on Finding Structure Everywhere

    By I'm a Writer But   June 7, 2022
    Micro

    Late Greats: Readings of Emily Dickinson, Robert Herrick, William Butler Yeats, Kobayashi Issa, and Virginia Woolf

    By Micro   June 7, 2022
    Memoir

    On Reading My Memoir to My Father

    By Séamas O'Reilly  June 7, 2022
    Jane Austen

    What Would a Modern-Day Jane Austen Novel Look Like?

    By Taylor Hahn  June 7, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Rachel Howzell Hall on Why Crime Captures Every Genre of Writing

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 7, 2022
    Summer reading

    35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  June 6, 2022
    Poets

    Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

    By Jen DeGregorio  June 6, 2022
    Oral Histories

    Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

    By Levi Vonk  June 6, 2022
    First Draft

    Why NoViolet Bulawayo Isn’t Staying in Her Lane

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 6, 2022
    Ursa

    Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton: Why We Love Short Stories

    By Ursa   June 6, 2022
    Graphic Novels

    Panoramic Panels: On the Power and Potential of Graphic Novels to Convey a Bygone New York

    By Literary Hub  June 6, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Raquel Gutiérrez is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 6, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

    By History of Literature  June 6, 2022
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in June

    By Eliza Smith  June 3, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 17 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  June 3, 2022
    Micro

    Amber Sparks on Myths, Flash Fiction, and Her Unromantic Writing Process

    By Micro   June 3, 2022
    Memory

    26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

    By Tedi López Mills and Robin Myers  June 3, 2022
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