• Literary Criticism

    So Many Damn Books

    When the Dreaded Reading Slump Comes Calling

    By So Many Damn Books  February 23, 2021
    Horror

    Megan Giddings’s Lakewood is an Undeniable Classic of
    Black Horror

    By Steffan Triplett  February 22, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West… That’s Good to Mothers

    By History of Literature  February 22, 2021
    In Conversation

    Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

    By Brian Castleberry  February 22, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Finalists: Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer

    By Jacob M. Appel  February 22, 2021
    The Canon

    Will Self on What to Read: Canons to the Left, Canons to the Right, and Everything in Between

    By Will Self  February 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    5 Books You May Have Missed in January

    By Bethanne Patrick  February 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris

    By Megan Labrise  February 19, 2021
    American Icons

    Meet the Creators of the Toni Morrison Project

    By Rasheeda Saka  February 18, 2021
    On Home

    Writing About Housing Anxiety in the Contemporary Novel

    By Laura Maw  February 18, 2021
    War

    On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

    By Daniel Elkind  February 18, 2021
    The Internet

    Patricia Lockwood: The Internet Dominates Our Lives, So Why Not Our Fiction?

    By Kristin Iversen  February 18, 2021
    Death

    When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

    By Nina Solis  February 18, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan

    By Lori Feathers  February 18, 2021
    Short Novels

    50 Great Classic Novels
    Under 200 Pages

    By Emily Temple  February 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza

    By Richard Z. Santos  February 17, 2021
    Robots

    Have Robots… Always Been With Us?

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  February 17, 2021
    History

    On the Our Town Spin-Off That Served as WWII Spirit Building

    By Howard Sherman  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    15 new books to hunker down with.

    By Katie Yee  February 16, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Teenage Angst of 20th-Century Literature

    By Lit Century   February 16, 2021
    Identity

    Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

    By Paisley Rekdal  February 16, 2021
    New Books Network

    Does Regency-Era Opium Use Explain Anne de Bourgh of Pride and Prejudice?

    By New Books Network  February 16, 2021
    First Draft

    Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 16, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Lovability of Keats

    By History of Literature  February 16, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Is Crime Fiction Just Resting on Its Laurels at This Point?

    By Literary Disco  February 16, 2021
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