The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

This Week on the Literary Disco Podcast

By Literary Disco | July 13, 2021

Queenie Jenkins is not your “black Bridget Jones.”

Queenie Jenkins is not your “black Bridget Jones.”

By Vanessa Willoughby | July 12, 2021

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

From the 2021 PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

By Richard Flanagan | July 12, 2021

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List

Thora Hjörleifsdóttir on the Art Thriving in a Nearly Lost Language

By Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer | July 12, 2021

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

Elizabeth Poliner Close Reads Anton Chekhov’s “The Darling” and Munro’s “Friend of My Youth”

By Elizabeth Poliner | July 9, 2021

A World Beyond Our Skin: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Potential of Fiction

A World Beyond Our Skin: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Potential of Fiction

Robert Rubsam on the Author’s Allegiance to the Human

By Robert Rubsam | July 9, 2021

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Interview with an Indie Press: Belt Publishing

By Corinne Segal | July 9, 2021

100 Literary Jeopardy Clues from Real Episodes of Jeopardy!

By Emily Temple | July 9, 2021

What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

By Ilan Stavans | July 9, 2021

You Want Me to Read <em>What</em>?

You Want Me to Read What?

The Book Dreams Podcast Competes for Off-the-Wall Reading Recs

By Book Dreams | July 9, 2021

Dana Spiotta on the Inevitable Reckonings of Generation X

Dana Spiotta on the Inevitable Reckonings of Generation X

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 8, 2021

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This July

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This July

Bookstores From Around the Country Pick Their Favorites

By Literary Hub | July 8, 2021

In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

Austin Ratner on the Most Maligned Animal in the History of Art

By Austin Ratner | July 8, 2021

21 new books to keep your summer reading going strong.

21 new books to keep your summer reading going strong.

By Katie Yee | July 7, 2021

On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s <em>The Emigrants</em>

On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants

This Week From the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | July 7, 2021

On the Power of the “Unlinked” Story Collection

On the Power of the “Unlinked” Story Collection

Chris Stuck Recommends Books by James Baldwin, ZZ Packer, and More

By Chris Stuck | July 7, 2021

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