• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

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

    By Dan Sheehan  January 28, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch América Fuentes and Gloria Estefan Discuss Richard Blanco’s “Looking for The Gulf Motel”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 28, 2022
    In Conversation

    Marcial Gala on Writing Cuba and Reworking The Iliad

    By Samuel Jaffe Goldstein  January 28, 2022
    The Maris Review

    John Darnielle on the Crisis of Conscience in True Crime

    By The Maris Review  January 27, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Deesha Philyaw on Why Her Book Should Not Have Succeeded

    By Book Dreams  January 27, 2022
    Translation

    Why You Should Be Reading More Catalan Literature in Translation

    By Laura McGloughlin  January 27, 2022
    Aliens?

    How Modern Storytelling Uses Aliens to Talk About Humanity

    By Mike Chen  January 27, 2022
    Mythology

    Why We Need to Revisit Old Myths to Create New Ones

    By Michael Bazzett  January 27, 2022
    Life in a Pandemic

    10 Books for Being Alone

    By Emily Temple  January 26, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Best of 1970s and 80s Women-Authored Science Fiction and Fantasy

    By David L. Pike  January 26, 2022
    Cities

    We’re All Just Extras Here: Wandering the Back Streets of Old Hollywood

    By David L. Ulin  January 26, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Jamie Harrison on Train Dreams, Harriet the Spy, and One Hundred Years of Solitude

    By Book Marks  January 26, 2022
    Criticism

    We Will Always Need Virginia Woolf: A Common Reader’s Defense

    By Emma Knight  January 25, 2022
    In Conversation

    Jessamine Chan and Crystal Hana Kim Talk Pregnancy, Depression, and Asian American Heroism

    By Crystal Hana Kim  January 25, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Kirstin Valdez Quade on Fleur Jaeggy, Middlemarch, and Sarah Waters Sex Scenes

    By Book Marks  January 24, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On Sophocles, Boswell, and the Power of Literature

    By History of Literature  January 24, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch David Strathairn and Abraham Verghese Discuss Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  January 21, 2022
    What to Watch

    “The Uterus and the American Dream.” Art-Making and Domestic Labor in Bergman Island

    By Mira Ptacin  January 21, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  January 21, 2022
    Craft and Criticism

    Bernardine Evaristo on the Richness of Older Women’s Stories

    By Bernardine Evaristo  January 21, 2022
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have Missed in December

    By Bethanne Patrick  January 21, 2022
    Publishing

    Zora Neale Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print

    By Zora Neale Hurston  January 20, 2022
    TV

    Feeling Seen in Sort Of: On Queer Feelings and the Company of Others

    By Aanchal Saraf  January 20, 2022
    Teaching

    Teaching Literature Means Teaching Empathy

    By Arnold Weinstein  January 20, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Uli Beutter Cohen on Exploring the Literary Landscape of New York City’s Underground

    By Book Dreams  January 20, 2022
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