• Literary Criticism

    Rural America

    Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

    By Gary Lovely  December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group

    By Apoorva Tadepalli  December 22, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 22, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Religion and Nonviolent Protest in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie

    By Lit Century   December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Why Does Goodreads Have a Problem with Fiction by Women, About Women?

    By Ruth Madievsky  December 21, 2020
    Children's Literature

    What 2020 Children’s Book Roundups Are Missing

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 21, 2020
    Best of the Year

    The 10 Best Book Reviews
    of 2020

    By Adam Morgan  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem “little tree”

    By J. Alison Rosenblitt  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
    Chicano Poetry

    By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

    By History of Literature  December 21, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Graphic
    Literature of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    Rabih Alameddine’s Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 17, 2020
    Theater

    The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
    Illness

    Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness
    and Disability

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
    in Reading

    By H.M. Naqvi  December 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams’s Bromance Book Club

    By Reading Women  December 16, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 16, 2020
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

    By Elizabeth Connor  December 15, 2020
    Book Covers

    On the Glory Days of the Great
    American Trade Paperback

    By Gerald Howard  December 15, 2020
    Ghosts!

    The Restless Ghost Stories
    of M. R. James

    By Adam Scovell  December 15, 2020
    French Classics

    Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time?

    By Saul Friedländer  December 15, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Sylvia Plath’s Use of Tastelessness in Ariel

    By Lit Century   December 15, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Fiction
    of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 15, 2020
    Autofiction

    Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

    By Marion Winik  December 14, 2020
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