• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    7 Novels For Living Out Your Cottagecore Fantasies

    By Lillie Vale  September 9, 2021
    Wilderness

    Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

    By Annabel Abbs  September 9, 2021
    Residencies

    Writing Black Essays in White People’s Houses

    By Jill Louise Busby  September 9, 2021
    Women Writers

    Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

    By Margaret Atwood  September 8, 2021
    In Conversation

    Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

    By Rebecca Makkai  September 8, 2021
    Thresholds

    Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

    By Thresholds   September 8, 2021
    Shakespeare

    Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting The Merchant of Venice with My 10-Year-Old Son

    By Dara Horn  September 8, 2021
    African Literature

    The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

    By Vanessa Guignery  September 8, 2021
    Reading Women

    Crystal Wilkinson on Finding Community Among Affrilachian Poets

    By Reading Women  September 8, 2021
    Big Table

    Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

    By Big Table  September 7, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Hilma Wolitzer on the Catharsis of Writing Through Grief

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 7, 2021
    Women's Stories

    Making a Way Out of No Way: Celebrating the Power of Black Female Relationships in Literature

    By Dawn Turner  September 7, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Biblioasis

    By Corinne Segal  September 3, 2021
    Overlooked Women

    On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

    By Joy Castro  September 2, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2021
    Memory

    What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

    By Meredith Westgate  September 1, 2021
    new books tuesday

    13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

    By Katie Yee  August 31, 2021
    What to Read Next

    22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  August 31, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

    By So Many Damn Books  August 31, 2021
    Big Table

    Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

    By Big Table  August 31, 2021
    Narrative

    A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

    By Aimee Bender  August 30, 2021
    Shakespeare

    The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

    By Robert McCrum  August 30, 2021
    Children's Literature

    Imaginary Kingdoms: On the Power of Literature That Speaks to Children and Adults Alike

    By Stephen Prickett  August 30, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

    By Samantha Silva  August 30, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Henry James’s Very Long Short Story

    By History of Literature  August 30, 2021
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