• Literary Criticism

    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

    By Stephanie Burt  February 25, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Patricia Lockwood: ‘I Like to Give People a Very Vertiginous Whiplash’

    By The Maris Review  February 25, 2021
    The Hub

    I think about this tiny detail from The Talented Mr. Ripley all the time.

    By Emily Temple  February 24, 2021
    The Internet

    Beatifying Patricia Lockwood: “I Worry That She Hasn’t Had Enough Fun.”

    By Mary Gordon  February 24, 2021
    Quizzes

    How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

    By Emily Temple  February 24, 2021
    Gothic Literature

    Jonathan Lethem: Why Shirley Jackson is a Reader’s Writer

    By Jonathan Lethem  February 24, 2021
    Theater

    On the Erudite Chaos of Tom Stoppard’s Most Complex Play

    By Hermione Lee  February 24, 2021
    WMFA

    Lauren Oyler: In Defense of Autofiction

    By WMFA   February 24, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: She Come by It Natural by Sarah Smarsh

    By Colette Bancroft  February 24, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jenny Offill on the Ambition of Short Novels

    By Reading Women  February 24, 2021
    Problematic Faves

    How I Ruined Goodnight Moon for Karen on Goodreads

    By Julia Fine  February 23, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Flight Patterns: Reading of the Creatures of the Air

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  February 23, 2021
    Lit Century

    Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Further Evidence That All Stories Are Hauntings

    By Lit Century   February 23, 2021
    Enlightenment

    Did Novels of the Enlightenment Teach Empathy?

    By Ritchie Robertson  February 23, 2021
    Art and Politics

    Te-Ping Chen on Navigating Generational Difference and Political Turmoil

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 23, 2021
    new books tuesday

    14 new books to add to your TBR pile today.

    By Katie Yee  February 23, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Hamnet by
    Maggie O’Farrell

    By Colette Bancroft  February 23, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    When the Dreaded Reading Slump Comes Calling

    By So Many Damn Books  February 23, 2021
    Horror

    Megan Giddings’s Lakewood is an Undeniable Classic of
    Black Horror

    By Steffan Triplett  February 22, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West… That’s Good to Mothers

    By History of Literature  February 22, 2021
    In Conversation

    Nicola Barker is Our Great Post-Punk Novelist

    By Brian Castleberry  February 22, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Finalists: Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer

    By Jacob M. Appel  February 22, 2021
    The Canon

    Will Self on What to Read: Canons to the Left, Canons to the Right, and Everything in Between

    By Will Self  February 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    5 Books You May Have Missed in January

    By Bethanne Patrick  February 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris

    By Megan Labrise  February 19, 2021
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