• Literary Criticism

    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 2, 2021
    Reading Women

    The Golden Girls of Literature: Reading Women Recommends Books by and About Older Women

    By Reading Women  June 2, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Richard Flanagan: What the Writer Needs is a Mad Courage

    By Cherilyn Parsons  June 1, 2021
    Writers in Conversation

    Rachel Kushner and Francisco Goldman on Autofiction, Identity, and the Novel

    By Rachel Kushner  June 1, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  June 1, 2021
    Lit Century

    Can We Discuss Jenny Holzer’s “Truisms” as Literature?

    By Lit Century   June 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Fascism, Exile, and Tragedy Shaped Natalia Ginzburg’s Career

    By History of Literature  June 1, 2021
    Summer reading

    75 Nonfiction Books You Should
    Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2021
    Literary History

    Café Life and Literati: Life in Turn-of-the-Century Prague

    By Chad Bryant  May 28, 2021
    Kimpton Book Club

    Women Write Now: Imbolo Mbue, Patricia Lockwood, and Anna Wiener

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Catherine Menon and Colm Tóibín at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 28, 2021
    Rural America

    Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

    By Gigi Georges  May 27, 2021
    Science fiction

    Bo-Young Kim on Finding Unlikely Sci-Fi Influences

    By Bo-Young Kim  May 27, 2021
    Iraqi Poetry

    How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

    By Mona Kareem  May 27, 2021
    Politics

    How Would the Sisters of Little Women Experience the World Today?

    By Virginia Kantra  May 26, 2021
    Family Stories

    Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

    By B. Pietras  May 26, 2021
    News and Culture

    Judy Grahn on Erotic Power, Queerness, and the Goddess Inanna

    By Corinne Segal  May 26, 2021
    Summer reading

    38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2021
    Poetry

    Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

    By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez  May 25, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

    By Lit Century   May 25, 2021
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to read on the beach this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 25, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 24, 2021
    Titles

    Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

    By Chris Drangle  May 24, 2021
    Capitalism

    The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

    By Arielle Zibrak  May 24, 2021
    Storytelling

    Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

    By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
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