• Literary Criticism

    Reading Women

    T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

    By Reading Women  May 19, 2021
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 19, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Work in a Literary Magazine

    By Erica Jenks Henry  May 18, 2021
    Lit Century

    On Midcentury American Literature’s Preoccupation with Scandalous Sex

    By Lit Century   May 18, 2021
    Trans Rights

    The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

    By Isle McElroy  May 18, 2021
    new books tuesday

    Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.

    By Katie Yee  May 18, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    On the Alarming Conflation of Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley… Encouraged by Highsmith Herself

    By So Many Damn Books  May 18, 2021
    The History of Literature

    What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

    By History of Literature  May 17, 2021
    Criticism

    The Twisted Dream of Home Ownership in Tana French’s Novels

    By Nora Caplan-Bricker  May 17, 2021
    Storytelling

    Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

    By Brenda Peynado  May 17, 2021
    Science fiction

    On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Tobias Carroll  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Pride and Property:
    On the Homes of Jane Austen

    By Phyllis Richardson  May 14, 2021
    TV

    Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
    On Translation

    In Praise of the Singular “They”
    in Literary Translation

    By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 14, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

    By Corinne Segal  May 14, 2021
    New Books Network

    Bonnie MacBird on Expanding the Canon of Sherlock and Watson

    By New Books Network  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

    By Joshua Raff  May 13, 2021
    The Writing Life

    When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

    By Rachel Eisendrath  May 13, 2021
    African American Literature

    Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

    By Tayari Jones  May 13, 2021
    Reading Women

    Elissa Washuta on Composing the Three-Act Structure of Her Essay Collection

    By Reading Women  May 13, 2021
    On Poetry

    A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

    By Nandana Dev Sen  May 13, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2021
    Thresholds

    Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

    By Thresholds   May 12, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Half Lives and Long Drives:
    An Interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie

    By Sara Elkamel  May 12, 2021
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