• Literary Criticism

    New Books Network

    Does Regency-Era Opium Use Explain Anne de Bourgh of Pride and Prejudice?

    By New Books Network  February 16, 2021
    First Draft

    Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 16, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Lovability of Keats

    By History of Literature  February 16, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Is Crime Fiction Just Resting on Its Laurels at This Point?

    By Literary Disco  February 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  February 12, 2021
    Punk

    Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

    By Neil Gaiman  February 12, 2021
    Identity

    Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

    By Simon Han  February 12, 2021
    Love

    25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
    Lit Crit

    The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

    By Diana Rose Newby  February 12, 2021
    Memory

    Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
    From the Past

    By Maël Renouard  February 12, 2021
    Reading Lists

    On Taking Kink Seriously: A Reading List

    By Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon  February 11, 2021
    Lit Century

    Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

    By Lit Century   February 9, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
    Teenage Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2021
    Persian Literature

    A Brief History of Metaphor in
    Persian Poetry

    By Dick Davis  February 9, 2021
    Social Media

    When Talking About Poetry Online
    Goes Very Wrong

    By Wayne Miller  February 8, 2021
    Book Recommendations

    Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

    By Tyler Wetherall  February 8, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

    By History of Literature  February 8, 2021
    On Translation

    How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

    By Lara Vergnaud  February 8, 2021
    Food History

    On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

    By Urvi Kumbhat  February 8, 2021
    Women Writers

    On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

    By Rosalind Miles  February 5, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Romance and Imagination by Alexander Pushkin, Read by Stefan Rudnicki

    By Behind the Mic   February 5, 2021
    Political Art

    What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

    By Tobias Carroll  February 4, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Complexities of Motherhood: A Reading List

    By Avni Doshi  February 4, 2021
    Narrative

    How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

    By K Chess  February 4, 2021
    Palestine

    The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel, and the USA

    By Philip Metres  February 3, 2021
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