• Literary Criticism

    Art

    Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley

    By A. Natasha Joukovsky  February 16, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 16, 2023
    Otherppl

    Chetna Maroo: “Every Time I Lost my Way, I Would Go Back to That First Page.”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 16, 2023
    On Reading

    Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Unique Pleasures of Reading in Public

    By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza  February 15, 2023
    On Craft

    A Bizarre Pattern of Bridges: How—and Why—Baudelaire Showed Up Throughout My Fiction

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 15, 2023
    Thresholds

    Chani Nicholas on Writing (and Astrology) as a Response to Trauma

    By Thresholds   February 15, 2023
    Book Collection

    Book Stalls and Back Rooms: Traveling the World in Search of Literary Serendipity

    By Barry Yourgrau  February 15, 2023
    Keen On

    John Cribb on What Both Republicans and Democrats Can Learn From Abraham Lincoln

    By Keen On  February 15, 2023
    Love Stories

    Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine’s Day

    By Katie Yee  February 14, 2023
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to borrow from your local library.

    By Katie Yee  February 14, 2023
    The Internet

    On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

    By Stephen Marche  February 14, 2023
    Campus Novels

    In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

    By Daisy Alpert Florin  February 14, 2023
    Write-minded

    Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

    By Write-minded   February 14, 2023
    Hope

    How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

    By Paz Pardo  February 14, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Asale Angel-Ajani on the Push and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 14, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  February 14, 2023
    Keen On

    All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

    By I'm a Writer But   February 14, 2023
    Keen On

    Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    BookTok

    BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

    By Leigh Stein  February 13, 2023
    Close Reading

    Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

    By Ann Beattie  February 13, 2023
    Surrealism

    Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read… and Slaughterhouse-Five

    By Isabel Waidner  February 13, 2023
    Harlem Renaissance

    Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

    By Bo McMillan  February 13, 2023
    First Draft

    Kathryn Ma on Portraying Asian-Americans Positively and the “Messiness That is Life in Any Community”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 13, 2023
    What to Watch

    In Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan’s Twist is the Lack of a Twist

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  February 10, 2023
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