How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

Joshua Glenn Chronicles the Development of Sci-Fi in the Early 20th Century

By Joshua Glenn | August 7, 2023

Exploring Literary New Orleans

Exploring Literary New Orleans

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | August 7, 2023

Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

Madeline Ashby on G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill

By Madeline Ashby | August 4, 2023

In Praise of

In Praise of "Spicy Interpretation": On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

Jessica Sequeira on Celebrating the Possibilities of New Readings

By Jessica Sequeira | August 4, 2023

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Ann Patchett, Jamel Brinkley, Yepoka Yeebo, and More

By Book Marks | August 4, 2023

Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture and the Summer of Love or Hate

Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture and the Summer of Love or Hate

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 3, 2023

Best Reviewed
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  • Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
  • Sunrise
  • A Tender Age
  • Under the Falls
  • The Responsible Party
  • Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
  • A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir
  • Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland
  • Hocus Pocus
  • Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

Wherefore Art Thou Arthur?: On What Lies Behind Our National Myths and Legends

By Victoria Gosling | August 3, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Shane McCrae Is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian | August 3, 2023

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

By Hannah Bonner | August 3, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Tapping into the sticky stuff of humanity, each story is a gift"

By Book Marks | August 3, 2023

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

On Queerness in the Mahabharata and Hiking the Himalayas for Inspiration

By Shastri Akella | July 31, 2023

Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri's <em>The Immortals</em>

Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri's The Immortals

"The novel instead seems to be seeking the unknown, a strange experience of fascination beyond language and representation."

By Pankaj Mishra | July 31, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood's Darkly Humorous <em>Great Granny Webster</em>

The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood's Darkly Humorous Great Granny Webster

Lucy Scholes Considers Another Contender of Years Past

By Lucy Scholes | July 31, 2023

The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | July 31, 2023

July's Best Reviewed Fiction

July's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Colson Whitehead, Patrick deWitt, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and More

By Book Marks | July 28, 2023

July's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

July's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Laura Cumming, Kate Zambreno, John McPhee, and More

By Book Marks | July 28, 2023

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