• Literary Criticism

    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Chronic Illness

    On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness… and Chronic Racism

    By Maggie Levantovskaya  August 6, 2020
    Music

    Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

    By Odie Lindsey  August 5, 2020
    Nonfiction

    A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
    Or the Pleasures of Precision

    By Karen Babine  August 3, 2020
    What to Read Next

    The Essential Steven Millhauser: Where to Start With An Underrated American Master

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    American Classics

    Jeet Heer on the Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

    By Jeet Heer  August 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson’s Work

    By Joy Williams  August 3, 2020
    Brazilian literature

    On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

    By Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa  August 3, 2020
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2020
    Comics

    My Unborn Baby Has Strong Opinions About Classic Literature

    By Kate Gavino  July 30, 2020
    Literary Scenes

    A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life
    Beyond War

    By Stacy Mattingly  July 30, 2020
    Literary History

    The Literary Life of Pessoa’s Alter Ego

    By Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari  July 29, 2020
    Linguistics

    Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

    By David Crystal  July 28, 2020
    Anti-Colonialism

    Amiri Baraka’s Anti-Epic Poem About America’s Destruction

    By Michael Leong  July 28, 2020
    Jane Austen

    On Jane Austen’s Politics of Walking

    By Rachel Cohen  July 24, 2020
    Conversations

    Catherine Lacey is Not Interested in Promises of Redemption

    By Kristin Iversen  July 23, 2020
    Science fiction

    Arthur C. Clarke’s Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

    By John Clute  July 23, 2020
    Immigration

    How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

    By Tobias Carroll  July 22, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

    By Michael Heyward  July 22, 2020
    Fantasy

    On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

     July 21, 2020
    Short Stories

    Five Japanese Authors Share Their Favorite Murakami Short Stories

    By David Karashima  July 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Writing As an
    Act of Distancing

    By Guy Gunaratne  July 20, 2020
    Classics

    The Tenacious Constancy of
    The Merchant of Prato

    By Charles Nicholl  July 20, 2020
    Art and Politics

    When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right

    By Tobias Carroll  July 17, 2020
    Philosophy

    Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics

    By Maren Tova Linett  July 17, 2020
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