• Literary Criticism

    Science fiction

    Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

    By Sharmila Cohen  May 21, 2021
    Book Titles

    77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    By Edward Brooke-Hitching  May 21, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

    By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
    New Books Network

    What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

    By New Books Network  May 21, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    Classics

    How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

    By Phoebe Wynne  May 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

    By Keen On  May 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

    By Thresholds   May 19, 2021
    Misfits

    Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

    By Claire Fuller  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

    By Bridget Collins  May 19, 2021
    Reading Women

    T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

    By Reading Women  May 19, 2021
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 19, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Work in a Literary Magazine

    By Erica Jenks Henry  May 18, 2021
    Lit Century

    On Midcentury American Literature’s Preoccupation with Scandalous Sex

    By Lit Century   May 18, 2021
    Trans Rights

    The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

    By Isle McElroy  May 18, 2021
    new books tuesday

    Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.

    By Katie Yee  May 18, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    On the Alarming Conflation of Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley… Encouraged by Highsmith Herself

    By So Many Damn Books  May 18, 2021
    The History of Literature

    What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

    By History of Literature  May 17, 2021
    Criticism

    The Twisted Dream of Home Ownership in Tana French’s Novels

    By Nora Caplan-Bricker  May 17, 2021
    Storytelling

    Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

    By Brenda Peynado  May 17, 2021
    Science fiction

    On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Tobias Carroll  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Pride and Property:
    On the Homes of Jane Austen

    By Phyllis Richardson  May 14, 2021
    TV

    Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
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