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Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's <em>Shakespeare</em>

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's Shakespeare

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 29, 2026

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Jane Ciabattari on the Prizewinning Chronicler of New York City’s Journey Through Genre

By Jane Ciabattari | July 28, 2026

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of </br><em>The Fellowship of the Ring</em>.

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

"No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy"

By Book Marks | July 28, 2026

Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!

Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | July 28, 2026

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | July 28, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

”It staggered me to think that perhaps I had always missed what made poetry poetry.”

By Literary Hub | July 27, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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

By Book Marks | July 24, 2026

A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck

By Lisa Stardust | July 24, 2026

Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

By Michael Cunningham | July 24, 2026

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s <em>No Name</em>

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Is Magdalen Vanstone a Detective Using Her Acting Skills or, by Victorian Standards,... a Criminal?

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 24, 2026

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

Lara Norgaard on Translating Cris Judar’s They Marched Under the Sun

By Lara Norgaard | July 24, 2026

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”

By Rebecca Solnit | July 23, 2026

Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?

Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?

Maris Kreizman on the Importance of a Good Reader

By Maris Kreizman | July 23, 2026

The First Reviews of </br>Every Raymond Chandler Novel

The First Reviews of
Every Raymond Chandler Novel

“A moody, brooding book, in which Marlowe is less a detective than a disturbed man of 42 on a quest for some evidence of truth and humanity.”

By Book Marks | July 23, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“People are objects, terrified of one another as they wake up to nightmarish scenes.”

By Book Marks | July 23, 2026

The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Amina Cain, Karen Solie, Cecily Parks, and More

By Diana Arterian | July 23, 2026

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