• Literary Criticism

    Writing About Disability

    Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

    By Andrew Leland  July 18, 2023
    Exile

    How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

    By Alfred J. Naddaff  July 18, 2023
    Poets

    Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

    By Patrick Gale  July 18, 2023
    On Writing

    In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

    By Stephanie Bishop  July 18, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 18, 2023
    Children's Literature

    Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books

    By Janet Manley  July 17, 2023
    Literary History

    The Complicated Afterlives of
    Roberto Bolaño

    By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Shin Yu Pai on Ten Thousand Things and the Asian-American Experience

    By History of Literature  July 17, 2023
    On Teaching

    On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

    By Steve Edwards  July 14, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 14, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

    By Megan Fernandes  July 14, 2023
    On Craft

    Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

    By Hannah Michell  July 14, 2023
    The Uncanny

    Uncanny Valleys: Eight Books That Map Worlds Not Quite Like Ours

    By Daniel Hornsby  July 13, 2023
    Desire

    Ten Books That Slouch Toward the Total Pain of Desire

    By Johanna Hedva  July 13, 2023
    On Race

    Why Regency Romance Needs to Give Its Characters of Color Greater Agency

    By Amita Murray  July 13, 2023
    Read Smart

    James Shapiro: Shakespeare Was NOT More Than One Person

    By Read Smart  July 13, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Beth Nguyen on Memoir, Mothering, and Refugeedom

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 13, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Ruth Madievsky on the Semi-Cursed Nightlife of Los Angeles

    By The Maris Review  July 13, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 13, 2023
    The Hub

    RIP to one of the great horny novelists of the 20th century, Milan Kundera.

    By Jonny Diamond  July 12, 2023
    Authors in the Tent

    Ivy Pochoda on Women, Violence, and Making the Move From Pro Sports to Writing

    By Authors in the Tent  July 12, 2023
    Wall Street

    Reading the Market: 5 Books That Capture 40 Years of High Finance Culture

    By Andrew Lipstein  July 12, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Colin Walsh Reads From Kala

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  July 12, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    27 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 11, 2023
    New England

    New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region

    By Dwyer Murphy  July 11, 2023
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