• Literary Criticism

    In Conversation

    Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

    By Laura van den Berg  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

    By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
    Profiles

    Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

    By Adam Dalva  October 9, 2023
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos’ Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

    By Ann Patchett  October 9, 2023
    International Literature

    Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

    By Joyelle McSweeney  October 9, 2023
    Robots

    Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

    By Dan Hope  October 6, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  October 6, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alex Reisner on Covering Books3 and Fighting Piracy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 5, 2023
    The Maris Review

    C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

    By The Maris Review  October 5, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 5, 2023
    Queer Lit

    Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of Roaming

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 2, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

    By Lucy Scholes  October 2, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

    By History of Literature  October 2, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

    By Rhonda Watts  September 28, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 28, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

    By The Maris Review  September 28, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Lit Century

    Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    By Lit Century   September 26, 2023
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