• Literary Criticism

    NewberyTart

    Against Defanging Children’s Book Authors

    By NewberyTart   July 21, 2021
    The Hub

    Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray.

    By Katie Yee  July 20, 2021
    Pain

    Rachel Yoder on Navigating Chronic Pain Through Storytelling

    By Rachel Yoder  July 20, 2021
    new books tuesday

    10 new books you’ll want to read right now.

    By Katie Yee  July 20, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Rosecrans Baldwin on Los Angeles, Wittgenstein, and Melancholy

    By So Many Damn Books  July 20, 2021
    Autofiction

    Is There a More Interesting Way to Talk About the Blurry Line Between a Writer’s Life and Their Fiction?

    By Sara Martin  July 20, 2021
    News and Culture

    David Lowery on the Strange, Arduous Journey of Adapting The Green Knight for Film

    By David Lowery  July 19, 2021
    Aesthetics

    How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

    By Nicholas Frankel  July 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Understanding the Bronx:
    A Reading List

    By John J. Healey  July 19, 2021
    First Draft

    Michael Kleber-Diggs on Connecting to the World Through Poetry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 19, 2021
    Graphic Novels

    Kristen Radtke: How Do You Turn a Graphic Novel Into a Compelling Audiobook?

    By Kristen Radtke  July 16, 2021
    Fantasies

    All Our Monstrous Fantasies: A Reading List

    By Beth Morgan  July 16, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Searching For Myself in Working Class Art

    By Cynthia Cruz  July 15, 2021
    Book Dreams

    How The Baby-Sitters Club Influenced a Generation of Writers

    By Book Dreams  July 15, 2021
    Literary History

    Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

    By Shirley Jackson  July 14, 2021
    Climate Crisis Readings

    Matt Bell on Heeding the Dire Climate Warnings of Our Best Literary Prophets

    By Matt Bell  July 14, 2021
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 14, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    From Fabulist Stories to Cold War Potboilers: 5 Books You May Have Missed in June

    By Bethanne Patrick  July 14, 2021
    Neuroscience

    The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

    By Scott A. Small  July 13, 2021
    new books tuesday

    21 new books to accompany you on your summer adventures.

    By Katie Yee  July 13, 2021
    Baseball

    Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

    By Rick White  July 13, 2021
    Third Culture

    Searching for Connection and Belonging, in Life and Fiction

    By Sunjeev Sahota  July 13, 2021
    Literary Disco

    The Philosophy of the “Pool Read”

    By Literary Disco  July 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Queenie Jenkins is not your “black Bridget Jones.”

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 12, 2021
    Freedom of Speech

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

    By Richard Flanagan  July 12, 2021
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