• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    Structural Play: 8 Books That Challenge Genre and Style

    By Megan Milks  September 27, 2021
    Theater

    On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre

    By Casey Kayser  September 27, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On William Sidney Porter and His Legacy Within the American Short Story

    By History of Literature  September 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Want to watch Olivia Colman perform a brand new lecture by Elena Ferrante?

    By Jonny Diamond  September 24, 2021
    Income Inequality

    Do Fictional Critiques of the Wealthy Ever Really . . . Work?

    By Andrew Martin & Benjamin Nugent  September 24, 2021
    Sex

    Centuries Before Fifty Shades, A Runaway Hit About Kinky Sex

    By Leigh Cowart  September 24, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 24, 2021
    Biography

    How Philip Roth Controlled the Narrative of His Own Life

    By Jacques Berlinerblau  September 24, 2021
    Best Reviews of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 23, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next

    By Just the Right Book   September 23, 2021
    Parents

    The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

    By Farah Jasmine Griffin  September 23, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

    By Emily Temple  September 22, 2021
    Mental health

    All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

    By Savannah Marciezyk  September 22, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    10 Books by Women You May Have Missed in August

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 22, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

    By Lit Century   September 21, 2021
    Classics

    Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the Divine Comedy

    By Randy Boyagoda  September 21, 2021
    Literary History

    When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
    Classic Reviews

    When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book… The Hobbit

    By Book Marks  September 21, 2021
    On Craft

    In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

    By Lincoln Michel  September 21, 2021
    Silicon Valley

    Understanding the Pervasive Influence of Silicon Valley: On Peter Thiel and the Sprawling History of the Tech Industry

    By Max Chafkin  September 21, 2021
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to get you out of your pandemic reading funk.

    By Katie Yee  September 21, 2021
    The Holocaust

    Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

    By David Rieff  September 20, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Parallels Between Henry James’s Relationships and His Story “The Beast in the Jungle”

    By History of Literature  September 20, 2021
    Poetry

    What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

    By Aruni Kashyap  September 20, 2021
    dialogue

    The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

    By Dan O'Brien  September 20, 2021
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