• Literary Criticism

    Best Short Stories 2025

    Announcing the Winners of the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  April 21, 2025
    On Poetry

    On the Enduring Power of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust, 50 Years Later

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 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  April 18, 2025
    Coming of Age

    Five Novels About Coming of Age When You’re Old Enough to Know Better

    By Emily Everett  April 18, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Writers Are Assholes?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 17, 2025
    Nationalism

    “Is Canada a Viable Country?” Yes, According to American Literature

    By Brooke Clark  April 17, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 17, 2025
    Writing Place

    Not One Vietnam, But Many: Vinh Nguyen on Capturing a Multifarious Country in Memoir

    By Vinh Nguyen  April 17, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ariana Reines Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 17, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Vauhini Vara on Searches and Searches

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 17, 2025
    Detective Fiction

    “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

    By Sarah Weinman  April 16, 2025
    Nature Poetics

    Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray’s Sensory, Mozartian Poems

    By Ishion Hutchinson  April 16, 2025
    On Translation

    The Future Will be Translated:
    A Manifesto in Three Lies

    By Chloe Garcia Roberts  April 16, 2025
    The Cosmic Library

    The Cosmic Library presents The Brothers Karamazov: A Radio Play

    By The Cosmic Library   April 16, 2025
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

    By Sanibel   April 15, 2025
    Journalism

    From Fact-Checking to Fiction: On the Multifaceted and Often Fruitless Pursuit of Truth

    By Austin Kelley  April 15, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

    By Heather McGowan  April 15, 2025
    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 15, 2025
    Poets

    An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

    By Heather Swan  April 14, 2025
    Romance Novels

    Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes… And Other Non-Sentient Objects

    By Celia Mattison  April 14, 2025
    The Lives of Women

    Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

    By Claire Hoffman  April 14, 2025
    African American Literature

    The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

    By Tiana Clark  April 14, 2025
    American Empire

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 11, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 11, 2025
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