Craft and Criticism

What to Read

19 new books to find at your local bookstore.

 
By Katie Yee  December 7, 2021
Best of the Year

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

By Book Marks  December 7, 2021
Storytelling

Thwarted Passions, Private Lives: On Out-of-Control Characters in Literary Fiction

By Lisa Harding  December 7, 2021
So Many Damn Books

Uli Beutter Cohen on Subway Book Trends and Reading Habits

By So Many Damn Books  December 7, 2021
In Conversation

On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature

By Literary Hub  December 7, 2021
Lit Century

Revisiting Sunday in the Park with George in the Wake of Sondheim’s Death

By Lit Century   December 7, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
I'm a Writer But

Why Ted Flanagan Wants His Readers to Be a Little Frustrated (At First)

By I'm a Writer But   December 7, 2021
The Cosmic Library

How Stories Can Transcend Author, Culture, and History

By The Cosmic Library   December 7, 2021
Musicians

“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen

By Literary Hub  December 6, 2021
Best of the Year

The 101 Best Book Covers of 2021

As Chosen by Our Favorite Book Cover Designers

By Emily Temple  December 7, 2021
News and Culture

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

By Book Marks  December 6, 2021
Anti-Colonialism

Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, One of the Great Revolutionary Intellectuals of the 20th Century

By Cornel West  December 6, 2021
The History of Literature

On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five

By History of Literature  December 6, 2021
Literary Criticism

The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic

Colin Dickey Finds Deeper Dystopian Meaning in Virginia Woolf’s Classic

By Colin Dickey  December 6, 2021
Otherppl

Janice Lee on the Interconnectedness of Suffering

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 6, 2021
Criticism

Hisham Matar on the Migratory Fictions of Joseph Conrad

By Hisham Matar  December 3, 2021
Movies

The Literary Case for Slasher Films and the Horrors of Reality TV

By Samantha Allen  December 3, 2021
The Literary Life

Paul Auster on the Poem He Can’t Get Out of His Head

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life  December 3, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
Writers on Writers

Eulogy for a Visionary: On the Grim Narrative Introspection of Charles Bowden

By Leath Tonino  December 3, 2021
Literary Criticism

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

By Book Marks  December 3, 2021
Poetry

Behind the Birth of a Poetry Collective

Daniel Kramb on Malika’s Poetry Kitchen

By Daniel Kramb  December 3, 2021
The Common

Priyanka Sacheti on the Complexities of Unbelonging

By The Common  December 3, 2021
The Virtual Book Channel

Emerald Fennell on Promising Young Woman and Writing After Winning an Oscar

By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2021
Indie Presses

When You Start an Indie Press With Your Life Partner

By Beth Kephart  December 6, 2021
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