• Literary Criticism

    Political Art

    What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

    By Tobias Carroll  February 4, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Complexities of Motherhood: A Reading List

    By Avni Doshi  February 4, 2021
    Narrative

    How Writing a Book Within a Book Saved My Novel

    By K Chess  February 4, 2021
    Palestine

    The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel, and the USA

    By Philip Metres  February 3, 2021
    Critics

    Lauren Oyler: Twitter has gotten so crazy… What if my book isn’t crazy enough?

    By Kyle Chayka  February 3, 2021
    Post-Apocalyptic Lit

    Reading My Way Through a Pandemic with Post-Apocalyptic Literature

    By Maria E. Andreu  February 3, 2021
    Religion

    How Istanbul’s Literature House Bridges a Divide in Contemporary Turkey

    By Jan-Peter Westad  February 3, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women Recommends Books That Center Black Joy

    By Reading Women  February 3, 2021
    Lit Century

    What Can an Intellectual Do? On Wallace Shawn’s The Designated Mourner

    By Lit Century   February 2, 2021
    Philosophy

    What Richard Wollheim Taught Us About the ‘Finished State’ of a Person

    By Sheila Heti  February 2, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Literary Disco Discusses Shruti Swamy’s “The Neighbors”

    By Literary Disco  February 2, 2021
    Writing Women

    Who Are the Mean Girls
    in Literature?

    By Ellie Eaton  February 1, 2021
    The Internet

    How Should a Person Write
    About the Internet?

    By Emily Temple  February 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Searching for Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Would-Be Suitor, Tom Lefroy

    By History of Literature  February 1, 2021
    The Hub

    10 pictures of young Chekhov, ranked by hotness.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 29, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books
    of the Month

    By Book Marks  January 29, 2021
    Workshop

    ‘But I Will Write Anyway.’ Teaching the Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  January 28, 2021
    Lit Crit

    In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

    By Mark de Silva  January 27, 2021
    Rural America

    Growth, Loss, and a Mailbox Mystery: 13 Years in Gray’s River Valley

    By Robert Michael Pyle  January 27, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021

    By Reading Women  January 27, 2021
    Craft and Criticism

    Joan Didion: Why I Write

    By Joan Didion  January 26, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

    By Lit Century   January 26, 2021
    Politics

    What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

    By Soledad Fox Maura  January 25, 2021
    Literary Tradition

    Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

    By Eman Quotah  January 25, 2021
    Southern literature

    The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

    By Ed Tarkington  January 22, 2021
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