• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

    By Daniel Heller-Roazen  March 26, 2021
    The Literary Life

    P. Scott Cunningham on Miami’s Poetry Scene

    By The Literary Life  March 26, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Introducing Our Latest Podcast, Finnegan and Friends

    By The Cosmic Library   March 25, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 25, 2021
    Literary Innovation

    Poetic Language and the Science of Rediscovery in One Hundred Years of Solitude

    By Angus Fletcher  March 24, 2021
    Social Media

    How BookTok Gets Into
    Your Brain

    By Bethanne Patrick  March 24, 2021
    Oral Histories

    Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas
    of Oral History

    By Craig Taylor  March 24, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Intersectional Trans Stories

    By Reading Women  March 24, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Books Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

    By So Many Damn Books  March 24, 2021
    new books tuesday

    17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

    By Katie Yee  March 23, 2021
    Lit Century

    Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel’s 1974 Essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

    By Lit Century   March 23, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Broken Heart Of America by Walter Johnson

    By Stephanie Burt  March 23, 2021
    Tourism

    How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

    By Marco d'Eramo  March 22, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    Trilogies, Thrillers, and Sci-Fi: 5 Books You May Have
    Missed in February

    By Bethanne Patrick  March 22, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Navigating a Polyglot’s Life Between Bangla and English

    By Saikat Majumdar  March 22, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: This Is Major by Shayla Lawson

    By Megan Labrise  March 22, 2021
    Audiobooks

    The YA Audie Awards Judges Chat with AudioFile Magazine

    By AudioFile Magazine  March 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

    By Tara Wanda Merrigan  March 19, 2021
    French literature

    Immobilized and in Love with Albertine Sarrazin, Patron Saint of Delinquent Writers

    By Cora Womble-Miesner  March 18, 2021
    Autofiction

    On Tove Ditlevsen and the Tradition of Women Writing Autofiction

    By Ruby Brunton  March 18, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter

    By Elizabeth Taylor  March 18, 2021
    Craft

    On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

    By Brock Clarke  March 17, 2021
    Small Presses

    At New Directions University: Literary and Life Lessons from an Iconic Publisher

    By Mark Haber  March 17, 2021
    Craft

    Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

    By David Laskin  March 17, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    Vivian Gornick on the Magnetism of Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By Vivian Gornick  March 17, 2021
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