• Literary Criticism

    Motherhood

    Empathizing with the Mother Figures of Peter Pan

    By Liz Michalski  May 5, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 5, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alex George on the “Absolutely Extraordinary Journey” of Running a Book Festival

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 5, 2022
    Post-Apocalyptic Lit

    On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s Palace of Flies

    By Michael P. Steinberg  May 5, 2022
    The Hub

    Guerre, a Louis-Ferdinand Celine manuscript once thought lost, will be published in France.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 4, 2022
    Home

    The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  May 4, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Renee Gladman is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 4, 2022
    Memoirs

    Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

    By Courtney Maum  May 4, 2022
    Queer Literature

    Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

    By Susie Dumond  May 4, 2022
    Otherppl

    “We’re the Fools in Charge of Forgiveness.” Steve Almond on the Task of the Social Novelist

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 4, 2022
    Mythology

    Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

    By Jennifer Saint   May 4, 2022
    Queer Identity

    The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

    By Lauren McBrayer  May 4, 2022
    The Hub

    15 great paperback books coming out this May.

    By Katie Yee  May 3, 2022
    What to Watch

    A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

    By The Why Shakespeare? Course   May 3, 2022
    On Writing

    Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

    By Gerald Murnane  May 3, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 3, 2022
    Book Design

    On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  May 3, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 3, 2022
    new books tuesday

    25 new books to pick up this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 3, 2022
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

    By Eliza Smith  May 2, 2022
    Russian Literature

    Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

    By Marcia DeSanctis  May 2, 2022
    Chilean Literature

    Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

    By Alejandro Zambra  May 2, 2022
    Interview with an Indie Pres

    Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  May 2, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

    By History of Literature  May 2, 2022
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