• Literary Criticism

    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Booksellers From Books & Books Pick Their Summer Reads

    By The Literary Life  June 11, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Great Books You May Have Missed in May… Perfect for Vacation Immersion

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 11, 2021
    Reading Lists

    When You Just Need a Good Cry: A Reading List

    By Kristan Higgins  June 11, 2021
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 10, 2021
    Film

    How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

    By Adam Scovell  June 10, 2021
    Queer Identity

    How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

    By Jamika Ajalon  June 10, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Reading Books About… People Reading Books?

    By Alice Jolly  June 10, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants… in a Roundabout Way

    By The Maris Review  June 10, 2021
    Ecology

    On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

    By Gillian Osborne  June 9, 2021
    Craft

    On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

    By Ron Hogan  June 9, 2021
    Insomnia

    Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

    By Aminatta Forna  June 9, 2021
    Thresholds

    Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

    By Thresholds   June 9, 2021
    Reading Lists

    On Leaving and Returning:
    A Reading List About Home

    By Andy Abramowitz  June 9, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Reading Shades of Gray in Avi’s Nothing But the Truth

    By NewberyTart   June 9, 2021
    Book Origins

    More Craft Than Art: Approaching a Novel As a Carpenter Would

    By Brian Hall  June 9, 2021
    Reading Lists

    “My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

    By John Paul Brammer  June 8, 2021
    Archives

    Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

    By Samantha Rose Hill  June 8, 2021
    American History

    The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

    By Anne Sebba  June 8, 2021
    Mythology

    The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for Modern Times

    By Kathryn Lofton  June 8, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 hot new books coming out this week.

    By Katie Yee  June 8, 2021
    Blindness

    On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

    By M. Leona Godin  June 7, 2021
    Alcohol

    Once and For All: Is Drunkenness Actually Good for Art?

    By Edward Slingerland  June 7, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Storied Life of Miguel de Cervantes and His Greatest Creation, Don Quixote

    By History of Literature  June 7, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Raven Leilani in Conversation with Pandora Sykes at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 7, 2021
    Queer Literature

    Matthew Clark Davison on Care, Abuse, and the Narrative Possibilities of Brotherhood

    By Paul Lisicky  June 7, 2021
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