• Literary Criticism

    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

    By Jesmyn Ward  December 7, 2022
    Children's Lit

    Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 7, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2022
    On Poetry

    Bombay and the Beats: Bridging Two Cities Through Their Poets

    By Saranya Subramanian  December 7, 2022
    Queerness

    Cherríe Moraga on Writing About Queer Motherhood

    By Cherríe Moraga  December 7, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil

    By Luke Dumas  December 7, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Talking to Soneela Nankani About the 2022 Best Mystery and Suspense Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 7, 2022
    The Hub

    17 new books to invigorate your December reading.

    By Katie Yee  December 6, 2022
    What to Watch

    In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

    By Julia Sirmons  December 6, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Writing the Historical Mystery Novel: Jane Smiley Explains Her Process

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 6, 2022
    Lit Century

    On the Haunting Quality of Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story

    By Lit Century   December 6, 2022
    Narrative

    Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  December 6, 2022
    Write-minded

    Sarah Manguso is Not Interested in Wasting Words

    By Write-minded   December 6, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Talking to Robin Miles About the 2022 Best History and Biography Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 6, 2022
    Audibooks

    The Best Audiobooks of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 6, 2022
    Indigenous Voices

    How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

    By Jake Skeets  December 5, 2022
    What to Watch

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Imbues the Fairy Tale with Human Frailty and Historical Darkness

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  December 5, 2022
    Teaching

    On Teaching and Learning the Language of Care

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  December 5, 2022
    First Draft

    “She Could Already Feel Herself as Being Part of the Next World.” Morowa Yejidé on the Interplay Between Life and Death

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 5, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    December’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  December 2, 2022
    Shopping Season

    ’Tis the Season: What 80s Mall Movies Tell Us About an Enduring Site of American Tension

    By Sara Tatyana Bernstein  December 2, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Interview with Joniece Abbott-Pratt: 2022 Best Fiction Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 2, 2022
    On Poetry

    Yusef Komunyakaa on the Genius and Contradictions of Etheridge Knight

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  December 2, 2022
    Keen On

    What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America

    By Keen On  December 2, 2022
    New Books Network

    Hiron Ennes on Their Gothic Science Fiction Novel, Leech

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2022
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