• Literary Criticism

    Experimental Fiction

    How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell Infinite Jest

    By Rachel Greenwald Smith  August 20, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

    By Corinne Segal  August 20, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

    By The Maris Review  August 19, 2021
    Book Dreams

    How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text

    By Book Dreams  August 19, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 19, 2021
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 18, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
    Missed in July

    By Bethanne Patrick  August 18, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

    By NewberyTart   August 18, 2021
    Criticism

    Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

    By Andrew DeYoung  August 17, 2021
    Inspiration

    My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

    By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
    The Internet

    Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

    By Jo Hamya  August 16, 2021
    Language

    On the Art of Literary Name-Calling: The Best and Most Baroque Insults Are Micro-Poems for the Ages

    By Jason Guriel  August 13, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Enduring Appeal of Fictional Sisters: A Reading List

    By Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb  August 13, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

    By Jane Healey  August 12, 2021
    Science fiction

    In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

    By Daniel LoPilato  August 11, 2021
    Criticism

    On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

    By Kyle Beachy  August 11, 2021
    Illness

    Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

    By Eleanor Henderson  August 11, 2021
    On Writing

    Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

    By Angel Khoury  August 11, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On the 1983 Newbery Book That Should Be Left by the Wayside

    By NewberyTart   August 11, 2021
    Close Reading

    Was Bridget Jones’s Diary the First Internet Novel?

    By Emily Temple  August 10, 2021
    Interview

    Sabina Murray on the Limits of Journalism and the Wondrous Possibilities of Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 10, 2021
    Horror

    Finding Horror (and Art) in the Gray Areas of Identity

    By Virginia Feito  August 10, 2021
    Medicine

    The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

    By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 9, 2021
    Scandinavian Literature

    On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

    By Arthur Herman  August 9, 2021
    The Hub

    After Lord Byron: poetic advice for the modern poet (in couplets).

    By Jason Guriel  August 6, 2021
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