• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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

    By Book Marks  May 27, 2022
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Dzanc Books

    By Corinne Segal  May 27, 2022
    The Common

    Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain

    By The Common  May 27, 2022
    Criticism

    Does Care Require Sacrifice? On Suffering and Dignity in Elif Batuman’s Either/Or

    By Catherine Nichols  May 26, 2022
    Italian Literature

    How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

    By Marco Belpoliti and Clarissa Botsford  May 26, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

    By The Maris Review  May 26, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Dazzling, Treacherous World of New York City Real Estate

    By Adam Piore  May 26, 2022
    Reading List

    The People Who Show Up for You: A Reading List of Unconventional Families

    By Amy Feltman  May 26, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 26, 2022
    Shakespeare

    Buddhism’s Dukkha and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

    By Lauren Shufran  May 25, 2022
    Love

    From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love

    By Lillian Fishman  May 25, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2022
    Thresholds

    Morgan Talty on Indigenous Literature, Penobscot Culture, and the Villain of Colonialism

    By Thresholds   May 25, 2022
    Otherppl

    Kathryn Miles on the Emotional Toll of Investigating Tragedies—and Why She Carries on

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 25, 2022
    In Conversation

    Elif Batuman on the Need For Novels (And When Male Writers Describe Oral Sex)

    By Kristin Iversen  May 24, 2022
    In Memoriam

    On the Ball: In Memory of Roger Angell, 1920-2022

    By Michael Lindgren  May 24, 2022
    Summer reading

    Is Summer Finally Here? 8 Books Set on the Jersey Shore

    By Katie Runde  May 24, 2022
    new books tuesday

    15 new books to help you get through the week.

    By Katie Yee  May 24, 2022
    Celebrity

    Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

    By Elizabeth Hardwick  May 23, 2022
    Chinese Literature

    How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

    By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas  May 23, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

    By Dennard Dayle  May 23, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

    By History of Literature  May 23, 2022
    Language

    Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

    By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza  May 20, 2022
    In Conversation

    A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

    By Literary Hub  May 20, 2022
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