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Literary Criticism

Theater

Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
Close Reading

Why is The Known World
So Good?

By Emily Temple  October 5, 2020
Lit Crit

The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

By Elizabeth Poliner  October 5, 2020
The History of Literature

On the Haunting Remorse of Edgar Allan Poe’s
“The Black Cat”

By History of Literature  October 5, 2020
Criticism

A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

By Jamieson Webster  October 2, 2020
On Memoir

The Case for Writing a Memoir in Essays

By Beth Kephart  October 2, 2020
Material History

What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

By James Raven  October 1, 2020
Great Authors

On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds

By Gregory Ariail  October 1, 2020
NewberyTart

Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

By NewberyTart   October 1, 2020
History of Reading

At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, September Edition

By Book Marks  September 30, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

By Book Marks  September 29, 2020
So Many Damn Books

Prepare Your Brackets:
The All-Time Super Rooster Tournament of Books is Here

By So Many Damn Books  September 29, 2020
Literary Disco

On Watership Down, Another Attempt to Stop Humans from Ruining the Planet

By Literary Disco  September 29, 2020
Lit Crit

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

By Brian Dillon  September 28, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
Mathematics

How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)

By Dan Rockmore  September 28, 2020
The History of Literature

Margot Livesey on the Greatest Writers in Scottish History

By History of Literature  September 28, 2020
The Hub

Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

By Book Marks  September 25, 2020
Ghosts!

How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human

By Amy Shearn  September 25, 2020
Essential Books

33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

By Niloufar Talebi  September 25, 2020
Criticism

A Brief (But Not Too) History of
Literary Constipation

By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
2020 Election

Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat

By Anjali Enjeti  September 24, 2020
How to Read

What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
Poets

Lucille Clifton Didn’t Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

By Tracie Morris  September 21, 2020
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