Craft and Criticism

Best Reviews of the Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Alexander Chee on E. M. Forster, Judith Butler on The Right to Sex, Dina Nayeri on Rabih Alameddine, and more

 
By Book Marks  September 23, 2021
Artists in Conversation

Where Intimacy Meets Tactility: Artists and Publishers on the Nature of the Photobook

By W. Scott Olsen  September 23, 2021
Family Histories

What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?

By Kei Miller  September 23, 2021
The Maris Review

Nichole Perkins on Writing As a Way to Break Generational Curses

By The Maris Review  September 23, 2021
Otherppl

“Extra, Extra! Completely Incoherent Writing Advice.” A Conversation with Lucie Elven

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 23, 2021
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo

By The Virtual Book Channel  September 23, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
just the right book

Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next

By Just the Right Book   September 23, 2021
Parents

The Miracle of Black Love: On the Greater Meaning of My Parents’ Enduring Marriage

By Farah Jasmine Griffin  September 23, 2021
Reading Lists

The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

By Emily Temple  September 22, 2021
Book Dreams

Megan Abbott on the Tortured, Insular Worlds of Ballet and Gymnastics

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams  September 23, 2021
Thresholds

Rebecca Carroll on the Joy and Relief of Finding Catharsis Through Crafting Memoir

By Thresholds   September 22, 2021
Mental health

All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

By Savannah Marciezyk  September 22, 2021
Reading Women

Beyond the “Whodunnit.” Paula Hawkins on the Importance of Gray Areas in Crime Novels

By Reading Women  September 22, 2021
Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

A Bigger Tent Is Always Better: How Ryka Aoki and Andrea Hairston Approach Genre Writing

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   September 22, 2021
5 Books You May Have Missed

10 Books by Women You May Have Missed in August

By Bethanne Patrick  September 22, 2021
Lit Century

How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

By Lit Century   September 21, 2021
Classics

Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the Divine Comedy

By Randy Boyagoda  September 21, 2021
Lit Hub Questionnaire

“The Writer You Are is Enough.” Ruth Ozeki on Process and Acceptance

The Author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
Literary History

When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
Classic Reviews

When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book… The Hobbit

By Book Marks  September 21, 2021
On Craft

In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

By Lincoln Michel  September 21, 2021
Silicon Valley

Understanding the Pervasive Influence of Silicon Valley: On Peter Thiel and the Sprawling History of the Tech Industry

Max Chafkin Recommends Books that Highlight the Intersection of Tech, Business, and Politics

By Max Chafkin  September 21, 2021
new books tuesday

16 new books to get you out of your pandemic reading funk.

By Katie Yee  September 21, 2021
The Hub

“Write the tale that scares you . . . I dare you.” Michaela Coel has some writing advice for us.

By Vanessa Willoughby  September 20, 2021
Historical Fiction

Lauren Groff on Blending Research and Imagination in Historical Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari  September 22, 2021
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