• Literary Criticism

    Climate Fiction

    WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

    Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel

     
    By Madeleine Watts  February 20, 2025
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 20, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 20, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 20, 2025
    Adaptations

    RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

    By Brittany Allen  February 19, 2025
    Walking

    How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought

    By Annabel Abbs  February 19, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Women Writers

    Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

    By Rebecca Romney  February 19, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Elyse Durham  February 19, 2025
    In Conversation

    Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

    By Aaron Robertson  February 19, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  February 20, 2025
    Feminism

    How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

    By Sophie Lewis  February 18, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 18, 2025
    Philosophy

    What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

    By Adam Plunkett  February 18, 2025
    Narrators

    Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

    The Author of “Cosmic Tantrum” Explores Ritual and Poetic Personas

    By Sarah Lyn Rogers  February 18, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 18, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 14, 2025
    In Conversation

    “Only That Which Does Not Teach Is Irresistible.” Charlotte Wood on Faith, Mortality, and Her Booker-Shortlisted Novel

    By Eric Olson  February 14, 2025
    Romance

    Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up

    Angelina Mazza Considers the Changing Literary Landscape for Romance Novels

    By Angelina Mazza  February 14, 2025
    Illustrations

    From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 13, 2025
    Italian Literature

    Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back

    By Ann Goldstein  February 13, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

    Featuring Niall Williams, Mary Oliver, Muriel Spark, and Others

    By Diana Arterian  February 13, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 13, 2025
    Gaza

    Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2025
    Austen

    Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives:
    A Reading List

    By Rebecca Romney  February 18, 2025
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