• Literary Criticism

    Queer Literature

    On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

    By William di Canzio  July 6, 2021
    Women's History

    A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

    By Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi  July 6, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Claudia Laitano on the Life and Legacy of Machado de Assis

    By History of Literature  July 6, 2021
    Keen On

    Elisa Gabbert on Living in a Era of Eternal Apocalypse

    By Keen On  July 2, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  July 2, 2021
    Craft

    “Where You From?“ The Problem With Shortcuts in Writing Place in Fiction

    By Brett Biebel  July 2, 2021
    Reading

    On the Pain of Reading Contemporary Writing When You Are a Contemporary Writer

    By Will Self  July 2, 2021
    New Books Network

    Original Sin and Roman Cults: Ava Reid on the Divine Inspirations of Her New Novel

    By New Books Network  July 2, 2021
    Rock'n'roll

    How Kurt Cobain’s Favorite Novel Made Its Way Onto Nirvana’s Final Album

    By Nathan Dunne  July 1, 2021
    Mythology

    Mythologies and Re-Rememberings: On the Synchronous Moments of Writing a Novel

    By Molly Aitken  July 1, 2021
    Biography

    Extractor of Secrets, Discloser of Secrets: On the Complex Role of the Biographer

    By Debra Dean  July 1, 2021
    Black Women's Writing

    The Inner Lives of Black Women: On Novels That Break the Chains of Trauma

    By Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler  July 1, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Do Books Have to Be Depressing to Be Taken Seriously?

    By Book Dreams  July 1, 2021
    The Hub

    What Lord of the Flies got wrong: the kids are actually alright.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 30, 2021
    Westerns

    Writing the “Eastern Western.” On the Massive Resurgence of Asian American Westerns 

    By Lavinia Liang  June 30, 2021
    Cults

    Kazuo Ishiguro’s Daytime Horror: On Cults, White Supremacy, and Pagan Aesthetics

    By Mieko Anders  June 30, 2021
    Women Writers

    How the Prophetic Fiction of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Exposed the Dangers of Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

    By Margot Livesy  June 30, 2021
    Poetry

    When Activist Poets Took Over a Tiny California Town

    By Lytle Shaw  June 30, 2021
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to read while sitting directly in front of the fan.

    By Katie Yee  June 29, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

    By Charles McGrath  June 29, 2021
    Lit Century

    The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army

    By Lit Century   June 29, 2021
    Craft

    Tom Lin on the Importance of Conducting Literary Field Work

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 29, 2021
    Literary Connection

    Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and
    Heidi James

    By Heather Martin  June 28, 2021
    Romance

    Romance Novels for Hot-Everybody Summer

    By Erin Flanagan  June 28, 2021
    Memory

    Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

    By Saskia Vogel  June 28, 2021
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