• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  August 30, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

    By AudioFile Magazine  August 30, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 30, 2024
    Authors

    Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

    By Maris Kreizman  August 29, 2024
    What to Watch

    Smarter Than You Think? On the Literary Side of Friends

    By Greg Cwik  August 29, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 29, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Joshua Kaplan on AP3 and the Future of American Militias

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 29, 2024
    Sports

    The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

    By Tobias Carroll  August 28, 2024
    Appalachia

    Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

    By Justin B. Wymer  August 27, 2024
    Essays

    As a Writer, You Can Never Collect Too Many Endings

    By Steve Edwards  August 27, 2024
    Reading Lists

    A New Asian American Boom: A Reading List of the Cambodian American Experience

    By Bunkong Tuon  August 26, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  August 23, 2024
    The Arctic

    A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

    By Colin Dickey  August 22, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 22, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 22, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 22, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 22, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

    By History of Literature  August 22, 2024
    Happiness

    Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

    By Maribeth Fischer  August 21, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite’s Born to Slow Horses

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 21, 2024
    Literary Icons

    Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  August 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Lena Valencia on Chronicling the Beauty and Danger of the Desert

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 20, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

    By Liska Jacobs  August 19, 2024
    craft advice

    Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

    By Ruben Reyes Jr.  August 19, 2024
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