This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Crap</em> by Wendy A. Woloson

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Crap by Wendy A. Woloson

J. Howard Rosier on One of the Finalists for Criticism

By J. Howard Rosier | March 12, 2021

Why we need more depictions of Twenty-Something Black Girls Just Figuring Shit Out.

Why we need more depictions of Twenty-Something Black Girls Just Figuring Shit Out.

By Vanessa Willoughby | March 11, 2021

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

Josephine Rowe Reads The Bone House in Rome

By Josephine Rowe | March 11, 2021

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Harmony Holiday on the Public-Private Tensions of Black Life in America

By Harmony Holiday | March 11, 2021

Femme Freedom on Film: On <em>Daisies</em>, <em>Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion</em>, and Twinning

Femme Freedom on Film: On Daisies, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, and Twinning

Sam Cohen Considers the Dismantling of Normative Gender Roles

By Sam Cohen | March 11, 2021

Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

Elizabeth Knox Recommends George Elliot, Mikhail Bulgakov, and More

By Elizabeth Knox | March 11, 2021

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The Fires of Digression: Gregory Brown on the Slow Burn of Writing Fiction

By Gregory Brown | March 11, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Shore by Chris Nealon

By Jacob M. Appel | March 11, 2021

Nineteen Ways of Looking at
Marilynne Robinson

By Kevin Brockmeier | March 10, 2021

When Philip Roth Switched Publishers, Drama Ensued

When Philip Roth Switched Publishers, Drama Ensued

Ira Nadel Dishes on Life in the Literary 70s

By Ira Nadel | March 10, 2021

Lauren Groff on the Subtle, Poetic Voice of Shirley Hazzard

Lauren Groff on the Subtle, Poetic Voice of Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus “Returns Quietly to the Mind”

By Lauren Groff | March 10, 2021

Merve Emre on the Mind-Body Experience of Transcribing <em>Mrs Dalloway</em>

Merve Emre on the Mind-Body Experience of Transcribing Mrs Dalloway

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on
The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 10, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>How to Pronounce Knife</em> by Souvankham Thammavongsa

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

David Varno on One of the Finalists for Fiction

By David Varno | March 10, 2021

Reading Trans Women with Rosemary Ketchum

Reading Trans Women with Rosemary Ketchum

This Week on the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | March 10, 2021

How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

Sophie Wilson on the Liberation Looks Inspired by Orlando

By Sophie Wilson | March 9, 2021

Was Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>The Unconsoled</em> the Greatest Literary Practical Joke of All Time?

Was Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled the Greatest Literary Practical Joke of All Time?

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | March 9, 2021

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