• Literary Criticism

    Women's Stories

    Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

    By Mary Sharratt  April 27, 2021
    The Hub

    Why George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is necessary reading for the 21st century.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 26, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Djuna Barnes Joined the Lost Generation

    By History of Literature  April 26, 2021
    Reading Lists

    On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

    By Tom Whyman  April 26, 2021
    But Make It Fashion

    20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    Bad Girl Debutantes, Rebellious Nuns, and a Pregnant Moose: 5 Books You May Have Missed in March

    By Bethanne Patrick  April 23, 2021
    Poetry

    10 Women Poets Who Inspired Me To Become a Writer

    By Aija Mayrock  April 23, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Will Our Next Wave of Fiction Be Escapist, or Corrective?

    By Literary Disco  April 23, 2021
    Reading

    Why Should You Read?

    By Will Self  April 22, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

    By The Cosmic Library   April 22, 2021
    American Classics

    Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic

    By Erica Vital-Lazare  April 21, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

    By Kate Washington  April 21, 2021
    Cats

    The Excruciating Decision to
    End a Cat’s Life

    By Martha Cooley  April 21, 2021
    Poetry

    On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

    By Khalisa Rae  April 21, 2021
    The Hub

    13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.

    By Katie Yee  April 20, 2021
    Classic Novels

    This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

    By Drew Johnson  April 20, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

    By Lit Century   April 20, 2021
    News and Culture

    Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

    By Ada Limón  April 19, 2021
    Ukrainian Literature

    Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

    By Kate Tsurkan  April 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

    By KT Sparks  April 19, 2021
    Poets

    How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

    By Mark Edmundson  April 16, 2021
    Queer Literature

    How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  April 16, 2021
    Editors

    The Challenge of Editing a
    Beat Legend

    By Garrett Caples  April 16, 2021
    Translation

    On Translating the Musicality of Sentences From One Language to Another

    By Julia Sanches  April 16, 2021
    Experimental Fiction

    6 Latin American Novels That Changed How We Think
    of Fiction

    By Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones  April 15, 2021
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