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Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

Mary Kuryla Recommends Toni Morrison, Joy Williams, T Kira Madden, and Others

By Mary Kuryla | February 16, 2022

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

Ilan Stavans on One of Democracy’s Bedrock Institutions

By Ilan Stavans | February 16, 2022

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

Morgan Jerkins Reads Plum Bun in the Era of “Identity Politics”

By Morgan Jerkins | February 16, 2022

15 new books to love this week.

15 new books to love this week.

By Katie Yee | February 15, 2022

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

How Kim Fay Read—and Ate—Her Way Through Home Cooking During Her Formative Years

By Kim Fay | February 15, 2022

On the Feminine Urge to Murder

On the Feminine Urge to Murder

Heather O'Neill Considers Rage and Femininity

By Heather O'Neill | February 15, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
  • Under Water
  • Paradiso 17
  • The Plans I Have for You
  • In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
  • Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy

The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

By Book Marks | February 15, 2022

Qualities of Magic: On Books You'll Keep Coming Back To

By Dr. Kate Gale | February 15, 2022

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

By Michelle Nijhuis | February 14, 2022

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

What You Need to Know About Harry/Draco Fic, Opera,
and Queer History

By Grace Lavery | February 14, 2022

The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

The Author of Lost & Found Considers the Story of Anteros

By Kathryn Schulz | February 14, 2022

Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 14, 2022

“The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

“The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

Lyn Liao Butler Recommends Anita Kushwaha, Amanda Jayatissa, and More!

By Lyn Liao Butler | February 14, 2022

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Loneliness in the Writing Life

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Loneliness in the Writing Life

Featuring Kristen Radtke, Amy Leach, Jane Wong, and Dana Spiotta

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2022

Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

This Week on Underreported with Nicholas Lemann
from Columbia Global Reports

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 11, 2022

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

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

New Titles by Sarah Manguso, Heather Havrilesky, Chuck Klosterman, Sarah Gran, and More

By Book Marks | February 11, 2022

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