• Literary Criticism

    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  February 12, 2021
    Punk

    Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

    By Neil Gaiman  February 12, 2021
    Identity

    Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

    By Simon Han  February 12, 2021
    Love

    25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
    Lit Crit

    The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

    By Diana Rose Newby  February 12, 2021
    Memory

    Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
    From the Past

    By Maël Renouard  February 12, 2021
    Reading Lists

    On Taking Kink Seriously: A Reading List

    By Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon  February 11, 2021
    Lit Century

    Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

    By Lit Century   February 9, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
    Teenage Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2021
    Persian Literature

    A Brief History of Metaphor in
    Persian Poetry

    By Dick Davis  February 9, 2021
    Social Media

    When Talking About Poetry Online
    Goes Very Wrong

    By Wayne Miller  February 8, 2021
    Book Recommendations

    Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

    By Tyler Wetherall  February 8, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

    By History of Literature  February 8, 2021
    On Translation

    How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

    By Lara Vergnaud  February 8, 2021
    Food History

    On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

    By Urvi Kumbhat  February 8, 2021
    Women Writers

    On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

    By Rosalind Miles  February 5, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Romance and Imagination by Alexander Pushkin, Read by Stefan Rudnicki

    By Behind the Mic   February 5, 2021
    Political Art

    What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

    By Tobias Carroll  February 4, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Complexities of Motherhood: A Reading List

    By Avni Doshi  February 4, 2021
    Narrative

    How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

    By K Chess  February 4, 2021
    Palestine

    The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel, and the USA

    By Philip Metres  February 3, 2021
    Critics

    Lauren Oyler: Twitter has gotten so crazy… What if my book isn’t crazy enough?

    By Kyle Chayka  February 3, 2021
    Post-Apocalyptic Lit

    Reading My Way Through a Pandemic with Post-Apocalyptic Literature

    By Maria E. Andreu  February 3, 2021
    Religion

    How Istanbul’s Literature House Bridges a Divide in Contemporary Turkey

    By Jan-Peter Westad  February 3, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women Recommends Books That Center Black Joy

    By Reading Women  February 3, 2021
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