• Literary Criticism

    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 7, 2023
    Diaries

    A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

    By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
    Criticism

    Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

    By Safiya Sinclair  September 6, 2023
    Poetry

    Elaine Equi on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice and a Universal Language

    By Elaine Equi  September 5, 2023
    The Lord of the Rings

    Is The Lord of the Rings a Work of Modernism?

    By Nick Groom  September 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: On Love’s Many Manifestations in A Green Equinox

    By Lucy Scholes  September 1, 2023
    Poetry

    A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  September 1, 2023
    Fathers and Sons

    How The Odyssey Helped My Father and Me to Grow

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  September 1, 2023
    Reading List

    A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

    By Jill Talbot  September 1, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 1, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 1, 2023
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 31, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Kansas Reflector Editor-in-Chief Sherman Smith on Freedom of the Press

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 31, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Hilary Leichter on Time and Re-Reading

    By The Maris Review  August 31, 2023
    Cosmology

    On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

    By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Nancy Bilyeau Reads From The Orchid Hour

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  August 30, 2023
    Literary History

    How Obscenity Laws Nearly Stopped Nabokov’s Lolita from Being Published

    By Thomas Harding  August 29, 2023
    Motherhood

    What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

    By Jessica Hendry Nelson  August 29, 2023
    Parenthood

    The Existential Impossibilities of Parenting, in Fiction and Life

    By Rebecca Ackermann  August 28, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction’s Response to Existential Crises

    By History of Literature  August 28, 2023
    Humor

    Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

    By Michael Wood  August 25, 2023
    Remembrances

    Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel Yo-Yo Boing!

    By Rolando Pérez  August 25, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  August 25, 2023
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

    By John Plotz  August 24, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 24, 2023
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