• Literary Criticism

    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    What It Means to Exist: Bethany C. Morrow, TJ Klune, and Naomi Wiens on Sci-Fi for Teens

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 28, 2021
    Otherppl

    Matthew Specktor on the “Cubist Razor Blade” of Extreme Success

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 28, 2021
    Thresholds

    Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

    By Thresholds   July 28, 2021
    NewberyTart

    On Morality and Fools in Paul Fleischman’s Graven Images

    By NewberyTart   July 28, 2021
    Revision

    Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

    By Maggie Smith  July 27, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 27, 2021
    Queer Literature

    8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

    By Amanda Kabak  July 27, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 new books to get you through the week.

    By Katie Yee  July 27, 2021
    Italian Literature

    Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

    By Mary Jo Bang  July 26, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

    By Julienne Gehrer   July 26, 2021
    Craft

    Alix Ohlin on How to Map the Shape of Your Short Story

    By Alix Ohlin  July 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Kiese Laymon in Conversation with Robert Jones, Jr.

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 26, 2021
    The Hub

    Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 23, 2021
    Birds

    What the Animal World Can Teach Us About Human Nature

    By Nick McDonell  July 23, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: A. Natasha Joukovsky in Conversation with Lauren Oyler

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 23, 2021
    On Grief

    Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

    By Beth Kissileff  July 23, 2021
    Fathers and Daughters

    Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

    By K. E. Semmel  July 23, 2021
    Gender

    On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

    By Matt Mitchell  July 22, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

    By The Maris Review  July 22, 2021
    Modernism

    The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

    By Richard Zenith  July 22, 2021
    Poets

    On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel”

    By Cedar Sigo  July 22, 2021
    Critical Theory

    The Attack of Difficult Women Prose

    By Gail Scott  July 22, 2021
    Otherppl

    Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 21, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Zakiya Dalila Harris in Conversation with Brit Bennett

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 21, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Palestinian Literature, Before and After the Nakba

    By Reading Women  July 21, 2021
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