• Literary Criticism

    The Critic and Her Publics

    First Sentences and Translating Proust on The Critic and Her Publics

    a week-long season on translation begins

     
    By The Critic and Her Publics   August 25, 2025
    Poetry

    Richard Siken on the Most Fundamental Poetic Device There Is

    By Literary Hub  August 25, 2025
    On Translation

    Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

    By Jamie Lee Searle  August 25, 2025
    Literary Trends

    Desperately Seeking Bygone Media

    By Ginny Hogan  August 22, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Nancy Reddy on Finding the Plot in Your Own Life

    By Nancy Reddy  August 22, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

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

    By Book Marks  August 22, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 21, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Cheat on My “Literary” Novel?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 21, 2025
    Lesbian Literature

    On the Past and Future of Lesbian Pulp

    By Trish Bendix  August 21, 2025
    Rereadings

    Sheila Heti on the Profound Influence of Jane Bowles on Her Writing—and Life

    What “Two Serious Ladies” Can Teach Writers About Struggle and Bravery

    By Sheila Heti  August 25, 2025
    On Translation

    On Discovering My Aunt Eleni’s Place in Queer Greek Literature

    By Natalie Bakopoulos  August 21, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Khadijah Queen Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 21, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 21, 2025
    On Poetry

    Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

    “The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”

    By Ilya Kaminsky  August 20, 2025
    Children's Literature

    A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear

    By Daniel Horowitz  August 20, 2025
    literary criticism

    Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia

    By Charlie Jane Anders  August 19, 2025
    Sci-Fi

    Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

    By Susana M. Morris  August 19, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    James Baldwin! Octavia Butler! Deadwood! 20 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 19, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

    By Ed Simon  August 18, 2025
    Ukraine

    A Million Sour Cherry Orchards: Olia Hercules on Remembering the Ghosts of Ukraine

    By Olia Hercules  August 15, 2025
    Poetry

    “Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan

    By Nima Hasan  August 15, 2025
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.”

    By Book Marks  August 14, 2025
    Exile

    Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

    By Emma Sloley  August 14, 2025
    History

    The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

    By Nathan Kernan  August 14, 2025
    Criticism

    Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

    By Katie Kitamura  August 21, 2025
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