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The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

Sarai Walker on Obsession, Ownership, and Plath Worship

By Sarai Walker | July 29, 2026

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's <em>Shakespeare</em>

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's Shakespeare

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 29, 2026

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Jane Ciabattari on the Prizewinning Chronicler of New York City’s Journey Through Genre

By Jane Ciabattari | July 28, 2026

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

Inside the 2016 Election, From Bernie Sanders’s Chief Strategist

By Tad Devine | July 28, 2026

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

Max Lawton In Praise of Writing and Translating That Consumes Us To the Fullest

By Max Lawton | July 28, 2026

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

Lizzie Buehler on Incorporating Techniques From Literary Translation Into Her Writing Practice

By Lizzie Buehler | July 28, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

By Book Marks | July 28, 2026

Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | July 28, 2026

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

By The Critic and Her Publics | July 28, 2026

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelman Discuss Class, Access and Getting Through the Door

By D/Annie Liontas | July 27, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

”It staggered me to think that perhaps I had always missed what made poetry poetry.”

By Literary Hub | July 27, 2026

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

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

Featuring Colson Whitehead, Michael Cunningham, Claire Vaye Watkins, and More

By Book Marks | July 24, 2026

A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck

A Tarot Reader Considers Sylvia Plath’s Relationship to the Deck

LIsa Stardust on the Influence and Imagery of the Tarot

By Lisa Stardust | July 24, 2026

Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

“It’s only a question of whether you’re looking through a telescope or a microscope.“

By Michael Cunningham | July 24, 2026

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s <em>No Name</em>

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Is Magdalen Vanstone a Detective Using Her Acting Skills or, by Victorian Standards,... a Criminal?

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 24, 2026

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

Lara Norgaard on Translating Cris Judar’s They Marched Under the Sun

By Lara Norgaard | July 24, 2026

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