• Literary Criticism

    News and Culture

    Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

    By Robert Alter  March 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

    By Carlin Romano  March 17, 2021
    Queer Literature

    Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

    By Patricia M. Dwyer  March 16, 2021
    Publishing

    How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?

    By Jenny Minton Quigley  March 16, 2021
    Lit Century

    How The End of Vandalism Treats Small-Town America

    By Lit Century   March 16, 2021
    Art and Politics

    On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

    By Layla AlAmmar  March 16, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Why We’re Watching So Much True Crime During the Pandemic

    By Literary Disco  March 16, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 16, 2021
    Singer Songwriters

    How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel

    By Don Lee  March 15, 2021
    Language

    When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

    By Ralph Keyes  March 15, 2021
    Marriage

    Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and Jane Eyre

    By Kate Washington  March 15, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Gabriel García Márquez’s Search for Truth in Nostalgia

    By History of Literature  March 15, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Inside Story: A Novel by Martin Amis

    By Carlin Romano  March 15, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Crap by Wendy A. Woloson

    By J. Howard Rosier  March 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Why we need more depictions of Twenty-Something Black Girls Just Figuring Shit Out.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 11, 2021
    The Writing Life

    After Images: Encountering the Work of Beverley Farmer

    By Josephine Rowe  March 11, 2021
    Black History

    A Dinner in France, 1973: Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, and a Very Young Henry Louis Gates, Jr

    By Harmony Holiday  March 11, 2021
    Gender and Politics

    Femme Freedom on Film: On Daisies, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, and Twinning

    By Sam Cohen  March 11, 2021
    Narrative

    Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

    By Elizabeth Knox  March 11, 2021
    Narrative

    The Fires of Digression: Gregory Brown on the Slow Burn of Writing Fiction

    By Gregory Brown  March 11, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Shore by Chris Nealon

    By Jacob M. Appel  March 11, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Nineteen Ways of Looking at
    Marilynne Robinson

    By Kevin Brockmeier  March 10, 2021
    Literary History

    When Philip Roth Switched Publishers, Drama Ensued

    By Ira Nadel  March 10, 2021
    News and Culture

    Lauren Groff on the Subtle, Poetic Voice of Shirley Hazzard

    By Lauren Groff  March 10, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Merve Emre on the Mind-Body Experience of Transcribing Mrs Dalloway

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 10, 2021
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