• Literary Criticism

    News and Culture

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of February

    By Book Marks  February 28, 2022
    Big Table

    Daniel Oppenheimer on Why We Should Read Dave Hickey

    By Big Table  February 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Recommended: This close reading of Ilya Kaminsky’s “We Lived Happily During the War.”

    By Jonny Diamond  February 25, 2022
    The Internet Age

    Reconsidering the Conventions of the So-Called Internet Novel

    By James Webster  February 25, 2022
    African American Literature

    A Book List for Black Dreams and Black Time

    By Gabrielle Civil  February 25, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Motherhood and Male Braggadocio: Watch an Exclusive Clip from Poetry in America

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 25, 2022
    New Books Network

    “Science Fiction is All About Our Now.” A Conversation with Tochi Onyebuchi

    By New Books Network  February 25, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  February 25, 2022
    Playwrights

    Six Things Quan Barry Learned from Being a Multi-Hyphenate Writer

    By Quan Barry  February 24, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Intimate Contact: Garth Greenwell on Book Bans and Writing About Sex

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 24, 2022
    Decolonialism

    Tilted Towards Liberation: Tanaïs on Rejecting Western Constructs, in Writing and in Life

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  February 24, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Bethany C. Morrow on the Self-Delusion of Privilege

    By The Maris Review  February 24, 2022
    Accessibility

    Some Practical Notes for Publishers on Readers with ALS

    By David Stam  February 24, 2022
    Love Stories

    Seeking Insight on Disastrous Love, from Literature and Psychoanalysis

    By Robin Kirman  February 24, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 24, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Sarah Manguso and Elizabeth McCracken on All-American Whiteness

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    Nonsense, Puns, and Dirty Limericks: A Serious Look at Poetic Wordplay

    By Brad Leithauser  February 23, 2022
    Religion

    A History of Demonology is a History of the World

    By Ed Simon  February 23, 2022
    James Joyce

    Cranly’s Arm: On Finding and Seeking Gay Desire in Joyce

    By Paul McAdory  February 23, 2022
    Sex

    What Pornographic Literature Shows Us About Human Nature

    By Kathleen J. Woods  February 23, 2022
    The Hub

    20 new books to dive into this week.

    By Katie Yee  February 22, 2022
    Jane Austen

    Reading Myself Into, and Beyond, Pride and Prejudice

    By Jane Pek  February 22, 2022
    Classic Reviews

    Richard Wright on Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    By Book Marks  February 22, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Joy Lanzendorfer on the Gendered Double Standard of Ambition

    By I'm a Writer But   February 22, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Anna Holmes on the Radical Life of Margaret Wise Brown

    By History of Literature  February 22, 2022
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