• Literary Criticism

    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Sabotaging My Own Writing Before Even Starting?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

     
    By Kristen Arnett  June 26, 2025
    Poetry

    For Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, There Must Be Poetry in a Time of Genocide

    By Cindy Juyoung Ok  June 26, 2025
    Literary History

    Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

    By Nicola Wilson  June 26, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 26, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 26, 2025
    Thresholds

    Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

    By Thresholds   June 25, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Reading Lists

    5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 24, 2025
    Theater

    Eurydice at 18: On the Off-Broadway Revival of Sarah Ruhl’s Beloved Play

    By Pamela Newton  June 24, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

    Keridiana Chez Explores the Role of Magic as Instant Gratification and Automation in the Potter-Verse

    By Keridiana Chez  June 26, 2025
    In Conversation

    Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 24, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Belle Starr! Agatha Christie! A reality-TV Lord of the Flies! 22 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 24, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

    By Benjamin Hale  June 23, 2025
    Fascism

    The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

    Ed Simon Looks at Eduard Limonov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Yukio Mishima, and Others

    By Ed Simon  June 23, 2025
    Food Writing

    “Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

    By Klara Feenstra  June 23, 2025
    In Conversation

    Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

    By Literary Hub  June 23, 2025
    Publishing

    Pep Talks That I Give to Authors That I Will Now Give to Myself

    By Maris Kreizman  June 20, 2025
    Free Speech

    “Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

    From Kamila Shamsie’s English PEN Lecture

    By Kamila Shamsie  June 20, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  June 20, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 20, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 20, 2025
    Indian Literature

    Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

    Radha Vatsal on the Contemporary Echoes of Her Ancestor’s Groundbreaking 19th-Century Novel

    By Radha Vatsal  June 20, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Hot, Moist, Hydrofeminist: Seven Sapphic Books with Themes of Water and Fludity

    By Siouxzi Connor  June 20, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Geoff Dyer on Homework and Play

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 20, 2025
    Sisters

    Sibling Duos, Trios, Quartets, and More: Nine Stories and Folktales Featuring Sisters

    By Fran Littlewood  June 24, 2025
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