Craft and Criticism

Poetry

Talking How We Talk: On Exploring the Poetic Plenitude of Black Life

Ali Black Considers the Shape of Voice, Theme, and Symbolism

 
By Ali Black  August 2, 2021
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  August 2, 2021
Road Trips

Reinventing the Transformative Vision of America in Nabokov’s Cross-Country Chronicles

By Thomas Dai  August 2, 2021
Influences

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

By Louis Chude-Sokei  August 2, 2021
First Draft

From Belfast to Bathing an Elephant S. Kirk Walsh Dives Into Novel Research

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 2, 2021
The History of Literature

On the Life and Works of Jack Kerouac, “King of the Beats”

By History of Literature  August 2, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Common

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri on Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience Through Literature

By The Common  July 30, 2021
Language

The Syntax of Belonging: On the Profound Connection Between Identity and Language

By Pardis Mahdavi  July 30, 2021
Interview with an Indie Press

Interview With an Indie Press: Black Ocean

By Corinne Segal  July 30, 2021
On Race

Blackness on the Margins: What Ann M. Martin Asked of Jessi in The Baby-Sitters Club

Chanté Griffin Considers Black Characters Then and Now

By Chanté Griffin  August 2, 2021
Cities

How the Oversimplified “Gentrification Narrative” Was Born

By Bo McMillan  July 29, 2021
Literary History

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!?

By W. Ralph Eubanks  July 29, 2021
Politics

What is the Point of Children’s Books About the Climate Crisis?

By Megan Otto  July 29, 2021
Movies

The Green Knight Unmakes a Classic—to Unsettling and Glorious Effect

And yes, Dev Patel slaps.

By Emily Temple  July 29, 2021
Editors

Introducing the New Editor of the Oxford American: Danielle A. Jackson

By Vanessa Willoughby  July 29, 2021
The Maris Review

Tahmima Anam on the Marriage of Rom-Com and Satire

By The Maris Review  July 29, 2021
Reading Lists

Being Seen: 5 Great Books That Capture the Essence of Coming of Age

By Laura Silverman  July 29, 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Why Be a Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction  July 29, 2021
Creativity

Shaping Hunger Into Practice: On the Creative Relationship Between Writers and Visual Artists

By Sally Cabot Gunning  July 29, 2021
Book Dreams

How a Heroic Carrot Set Marla Frazee on the Path to Illustrating Children’s Books

By Book Dreams  July 29, 2021
On Racism

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

By Amanda Choo Quan  July 28, 2021
Reading Women

Pik-Shuen Fung on the Intense Experience of Narrating Her Own Audiobook

In Conversation with Kendra Winchester on Reading Women

By Reading Women  July 28, 2021
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

What It Means to Exist: Bethany C. Morrow, TJ Kline, and Naomi Wiens on Sci-Fi for Teens

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   July 28, 2021
Otherppl

Matthew Specktor on the “Cubist Razor Blade” of Extreme Success

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  July 28, 2021
The Hub

“You don’t always have to talk.” Read Chang-rae Lee’s best writing advice.

By Vanessa Willoughby  July 29, 2021
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