• Literary Criticism

    Short Stories

    Why I Had to Leave Home to Write About It

    By Tyler Barton  November 16, 2021
    Writing Women

    How Misogyny and Religious Bigotry Have Influenced the Historical Portrayal of the Female Experience

    By Lucy Jago  November 16, 2021
    new books tuesday

    17 new books to keep your cozy reading season going strong.

    By Katie Yee  November 16, 2021
    QAnon

    A Close Reading of the QAnon Shaman’s Conspiracy Manifesto

    By Mark Dery  November 15, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Catherine Lacey on Letting Go of the Anxiety and Responding to Current Events in Fiction

    By The Quarantine Tapes  November 15, 2021
    Debut Novels

    What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?

    By Literary Hub  November 15, 2021
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Patricia Engel on The Lover, Edwidge Danticat, and the Rats of NIMH

    By Book Marks  November 15, 2021
    First Draft

    Kalani Pickhart on Writing the Complexities of the 2013 Ukrainian Protests

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 15, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Literary Remixes: From Little Women to the New Testament

    By History of Literature  November 15, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 12, 2021
    Literary Disco

    How Has Literature Changed Over the Past Ten Years?

    By Literary Disco  November 12, 2021
    Family Drama

    Loose Lips and Sunken Ships: How Family Secrets Can Protect or Destroy

    By Patricia Dunn  November 12, 2021
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 11, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Amitava Kumar on Writing Fiction in a World of Fake News

    By The Maris Review  November 11, 2021
    Cities

    The Accidental Origins of the “Subway Book Review”

    By Uli Beutter Cohen  November 11, 2021
    Book Dreams

    “I’m Not Following the Rules of the American Western.” Tom Lin on Subverting a Genre

    By Book Dreams  November 11, 2021
    Narrative Structures

    In Praise of the Meander: Rebecca Solnit on Letting Nonfiction Narrative Find Its Own Way

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 10, 2021
    Thresholds

    Gregory Pardlo on Trusting What’s on the Other Side of Sobriety… and Poetry

    By Thresholds   November 10, 2021
    Rereadings

    On Slaughterhouse-Five, the “Ultimate PTSD Novel”

    By Tom Roston  November 10, 2021
    Friendship

    How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

    By Alexandra Marshall  November 10, 2021
    Classic Reviews

    “It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

    By Book Marks  November 10, 2021
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and Goodnight Moon as Avant-Garde Horror

    By Book Marks  November 10, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

    By NewberyTart   November 10, 2021
    The Hub

    A close reading of an infamous poem on grief: Anne Sexton’s “The Truth the Dead Know.”

    By Snigdha Koirala  November 9, 2021
    new books tuesday

    19 new books to get at your local indie this week.

    By Katie Yee  November 9, 2021
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