• Literary Criticism

    Best of the Year

    The 101 Best Book Covers of 2021

    By Emily Temple  December 7, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2021
    Storytelling

    Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

    By Lisa Harding  December 7, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Uli Beutter Cohen on Subway Book Trends and Reading Habits

    By So Many Damn Books  December 7, 2021
    In Conversation

    On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2021
    Lit Century

    Revisiting Sunday in the Park with George in the Wake of Sondheim’s Death

    By Lit Century   December 7, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

    By The Cosmic Library   December 7, 2021
    Indie Presses

    When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

    By Beth Kephart  December 6, 2021
    News and Culture

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 6, 2021
    Anti-Colonialism

    Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, One of the Great Revolutionary Intellectuals of the 20th Century

    By Cornel West  December 6, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

    By History of Literature  December 6, 2021
    Craft and Criticism

    The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic

    By Colin Dickey  December 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 6, 2021
    Criticism

    Hisham Matar on the Migratory Fictions of Joseph Conrad

    By Hisham Matar  December 3, 2021
    Movies

    The Literary Case for Slasher Films and the Horrors of Reality TV

    By Samantha Allen  December 3, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

    By The Literary Life  December 3, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

    By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Eulogy for a Visionary: On the Grim Narrative Introspection of Charles Bowden

    By Leath Tonino  December 3, 2021
    Craft and Criticism

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

    By Book Marks  December 3, 2021
    Poetry

    Behind the Birth of a Poetry Collective

    By Daniel Kramb  December 3, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    What Accounts for the Lasting Appeal of Dune?

    By Michael Dirda  December 2, 2021
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    Fuccbois, Despots, and Nuns: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  December 2, 2021
    Reading Lists

    New and Noteworthy Nonfiction You Should Read This December

    By Literary Hub  December 2, 2021
    Otherppl

    Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the Ways We Replicate Thomas Jefferson’s Sins

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 2, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Rebecca Donner on Writing History in the Present Tense

    By The Maris Review  December 2, 2021
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