• Literary Criticism

    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Raven Leilani in Conversation with Pandora Sykes at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 7, 2021
    Queer Literature

    Matthew Clark Davison on Care, Abuse, and the Narrative Possibilities of Brotherhood

    By Paul Lisicky  June 7, 2021
    World Building

    What Novels Can Borrow from the Sweeping Mythology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    By Benjamin Percy  June 4, 2021
    Big Table

    Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, LA, and the Myth of Objectivity in Biography

    By Big Table  June 4, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Exploring the… Weirder Side of Reproduction: A Reading List

    By Sara Flannery Murphy  June 4, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Love Letters to Italy: A Reading List

    By Deb Caletti  June 4, 2021
    Museums

    A Moment of Reckoning: Thomas P. Campbell and András Szántó on Museums and Public Trust

    By András Szántó  June 4, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Wallace Shawn on His Classic, “Why I Call Myself a Socialist”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 4, 2021
    Jazz

    How the Poets Wrote
    of Billie Holiday

    By Cedar Sigo  June 3, 2021
    Obsessions

    Doireann Ní Ghríofa: On Writing and Embodying a Female Text

    By Lori Feathers  June 3, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

    By Lorenza Pieri  June 3, 2021
    Poets

    On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

    By Natasha Trethewey  June 3, 2021
    Summer reading

    10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  June 3, 2021
    The Hub

    A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 2, 2021
    Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

    By Literary Hub  June 2, 2021
    Documentaries

    On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

    By Teresa Fazio  June 2, 2021
    Reading Lists

    At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

    By Daisy Hernández  June 2, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 2, 2021
    Reading Women

    The Golden Girls of Literature: Reading Women Recommends Books by and About Older Women

    By Reading Women  June 2, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Richard Flanagan: What the Writer Needs is a Mad Courage

    By Cherilyn Parsons  June 1, 2021
    Writers in Conversation

    Rachel Kushner and Francisco Goldman on Autofiction, Identity, and the Novel

    By Rachel Kushner  June 1, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

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

    By Emily Temple  June 1, 2021
    Lit Century

    Can We Discuss Jenny Holzer’s “Truisms” as Literature?

    By Lit Century   June 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Fascism, Exile, and Tragedy Shaped Natalia Ginzburg’s Career

    By History of Literature  June 1, 2021
    Summer reading

    75 Nonfiction Books You Should
    Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2021
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