• Literary Criticism

    Literary History

    The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

    By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    On Contemporary Minimalism’s Maximal Lies

    By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

    By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
    In Conversation

    Talking Poetry and Porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village Bar

    By Brian Gresko  January 16, 2020
    In Translation

    The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

    By Michael Nylan  January 16, 2020
    American Identity

    John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

    By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
    Criticism

    James Wood: What is at Stake When We Write Literary Criticism?

    By James Wood  January 15, 2020
    Economics

    On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

    By Nicholas Shaxson  January 15, 2020
    Criticism

    Considering Garth Greenwell’s Revolutionary Erotics

    By Ben Miller  January 15, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

    By Jessica Andrews  January 15, 2020
    American Classics

    How Edith Wharton’s Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

    By Jennifer Egan  January 14, 2020
    Adaptations

    Merve Emre: When Elena Ferrante is Your Editor

    By Merve Emre  January 14, 2020
    Literary History

    My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

    By Martha Cooley  January 14, 2020
    Literary History

    J.M. Barrie’s Handwritten Manuscript of Peter Pan

    By Literary Hub  January 13, 2020
    Immigration

    Relearning Old Lessons: What a Forgotten Novel Can Teach Us About Immigration in 2020

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  January 13, 2020
    Craft

    The Impossible Exercise of Interviewing Leonora Carrington

    By Claudia Dey  January 13, 2020
    Craft and Criticism

    The Restless Comedy of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Last
    Novel, Sanditon

    By Janet Todd  January 10, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

    By Daniyal Mueenuddin  January 7, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On the Darker Standalone Novels from the Baby-Sitters Club Author

    By NewberyTart   January 7, 2020
    African Literature

    Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

    By Yogita Goyal  January 6, 2020
    Horror

    At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

    By Tobias Carroll  January 6, 2020
    Great Authors

    Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry’s The Street

    By Tayari Jones  January 6, 2020
    Feminist Classics

    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2019
    What to Read

    Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2019
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