• Literary Criticism

    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Intersectional Trans Stories

    By Reading Women  March 24, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Books Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

    By So Many Damn Books  March 24, 2021
    new books tuesday

    17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

    By Katie Yee  March 23, 2021
    Lit Century

    Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel’s 1974 Essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

    By Lit Century   March 23, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Broken Heart Of America by Walter Johnson

    By Stephanie Burt  March 23, 2021
    Tourism

    How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

    By Marco d'Eramo  March 22, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    Trilogies, Thrillers, and Sci-Fi: 5 Books You May Have
    Missed in February

    By Bethanne Patrick  March 22, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Navigating a Polyglot’s Life Between Bangla and English

    By Saikat Majumdar  March 22, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: This Is Major by Shayla Lawson

    By Megan Labrise  March 22, 2021
    Audiobooks

    The YA Audie Awards Judges Chat with AudioFile Magazine

    By AudioFile Magazine  March 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

    By Tara Wanda Merrigan  March 19, 2021
    French literature

    Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

    By Cora Womble-Miesner  March 18, 2021
    Autofiction

    On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

    By Ruby Brunton  March 18, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 18, 2021
    Craft

    On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

    By Brock Clarke  March 17, 2021
    Small Presses

    At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

    By Mark Haber  March 17, 2021
    Craft

    Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

    By David Laskin  March 17, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By Vivian Gornick  March 17, 2021
    News and Culture

    Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

    By Robert Alter  March 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

    By Carlin Romano  March 17, 2021
    Queer Literature

    Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

    By Patricia M. Dwyer  March 16, 2021
    Publishing

    How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  March 16, 2021
    Lit Century

    How The End of Vandalism Treats Small-Town America

    By Lit Century   March 16, 2021
    Art and Politics

    On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

    By Layla AlAmmar  March 16, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Why We’re Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

    By Literary Disco  March 16, 2021
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