John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

By John F. Callahan | January 16, 2020

James Wood: What is at Stake When We Write Literary Criticism?

James Wood: What is at Stake When We Write Literary Criticism?

On Deconstructing Texts and Our Understanding of Literature

By James Wood | January 15, 2020

On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

Nicholas Shaxson on New Books by Nicholas Lemann, Binyamin Appelbaum, and More

By Nicholas Shaxson | January 15, 2020

Considering Garth Greenwell's Revolutionary Erotics

Considering Garth Greenwell's Revolutionary Erotics

Ben Miller on Cleanness and Comradeship

By Ben Miller | January 15, 2020

Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

Jessica Andrews on Seeing Herself in the Writing of Adrienne Rich, Jeanette Winterson, Audre Lorde and More

By Jessica Andrews | January 15, 2020

How Edith Wharton's Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

How Edith Wharton's Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

Jennifer Egan on The House of Mirth

By Jennifer Egan | January 14, 2020

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Merve Emre: When Elena Ferrante is Your Editor

By Merve Emre | January 14, 2020

My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

By Martha Cooley | January 14, 2020

J.M. Barrie's Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan

By Literary Hub | January 13, 2020

Relearning Old Lessons: What a Forgotten Novel Can Teach Us About Immigration in 2020

Relearning Old Lessons: What a Forgotten Novel Can Teach Us About Immigration in 2020

Anne Boyd Rioux on Martha Gellhorn’s A Stricken Field

By Anne Boyd Rioux | January 13, 2020

The Impossible Exercise of Interviewing Leonora Carrington

The Impossible Exercise of Interviewing Leonora Carrington

Heidi Sopinka in Conversation with Claudia Dey

By Claudia Dey | January 13, 2020

The Restless Comedy of Jane Austen's Unfinished Last<br> Novel, <em>Sanditon</em>

The Restless Comedy of Jane Austen's Unfinished Last
Novel, Sanditon

Fragment of a Seaside Romp

By Janet Todd | January 10, 2020

On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

How the Fiction of Ivan Turgenev Changed Lives

By Daniyal Mueenuddin | January 7, 2020

On the Darker Standalone Novels from the <em>Baby-Sitters Club</em> Author

On the Darker Standalone Novels from the Baby-Sitters Club Author

This Week on The NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | January 7, 2020

Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

Yogita Goyal Considers “Afropolitan” Literature

By Yogita Goyal | January 6, 2020

At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

Tobias Carroll on Books by Lucie McKnight Hardy, Claire Colman,
Stephen Graham Jones, and Jennifer Givhan

By Tobias Carroll | January 6, 2020

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