• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring new titles by Javier Marías, Brandon Taylor, Rachel Louise Snyder, and More

     
    By Book Marks  May 26, 2023
    Books

    Publishing On and Off the Page: A Reading List of Books About Book People

    By Jane L. Rosen  May 26, 2023
    Sudan

    To Understand a Country: 8 Immersive Novels About Sudan

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  May 25, 2023
    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: Percival Everett’s “The Appropriation of Cultures.”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 25, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Rita Chang-Eppig on Researching Pirates for Her Debut Novel

    By The Maris Review  May 25, 2023
    Otherppl

    Ivy Pochoda on Writing About Violent Women (Without Making Excuses for Them)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 25, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Apocalypse

    A More Introspective End of the World: A Reading List of Quiet Apocalypse Books

    By Jane Hennigan  May 25, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 25, 2023
    Journalism

    From Rarefied to Beloved: The Path from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion

    By Brooke Kroeger  May 25, 2023
    Otherppl

    How Horror, As a Genre, Works

    John Truby in Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 26, 2023
    Character Studies

    Why Eccentrics Find a Natural Home in Fiction

    By Carlos Fonseca Suarez  May 25, 2023
    In Conversation

    Emily Simon on Language Games, Perspective, and Inheriting a Tradition of Complaining

    By Ross Simonini  May 25, 2023
    Summer reading

    The 28 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Emily Temple  May 24, 2023
    History

    On Jane Austen and The Lovable Unlikability of Emma Woodhouse

    Emily Harding Can't Separate the Independent Streak from the Austen Worldview

    By Emily Harding  May 24, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    “Outside the Coordinates.” On Crafting Nonfiction That Takes Risks

    By Laura Tillman  May 24, 2023
    Mental health

    Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 Years After Its Publication

    By Susanna Kaysen  May 23, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Ocean Vuong on the Moral Questions of Fiction

    By Talk Easy  May 23, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Rebecca Makkai Has Qualms with True Crime Media (and Makes That Critique in Her New Novel)

    In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

    By So Many Damn Books  May 23, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    25 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 23, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Martin Amis on the Genius of Jane Austen (and What the Adaptations Get Wrong)

    By Martin Amis  May 22, 2023
    First Draft

    “It Can’t Be Political Propaganda, but it is Political.” Curtis Sittenfeld on Crafting a Feminist Voice in Fiction

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 22, 2023
    The History of Literature

    How Has the Turbulent History of Northern Ireland Changed the Literary Landscape?

    From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

    By History of Literature  May 22, 2023
    Freedom of Speech

    The Freedom to Imagine: Ayad Akhtar on the Importance of Salman Rushdie’s Life and Work

    By Ayad Akhtar  May 19, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

    By Literary Hub  May 19, 2023
    Travel

    “The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

    By Jeff Biggers  May 25, 2023
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