• Literary Criticism

    Children's Literature

    10 Great New Children’s Books to Throw in Your Beach Bag

    By Caroline Carlson  July 2, 2024
    In Conversation

    Nina Schuyler on Giving a Voice to Nature in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 2, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Joy Williams! Rust Belt writers! Phillip Lopate! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 2, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Dragon Heists and Choose-Your-Own-Futures: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  July 1, 2024
    Poetry

    Gravity and Grace: What Becoming a Nurse Teaches You About Being a Poet

    By Dorinda Wegener  July 1, 2024
    Poetry

    Bamboo Wives, Biddle City, Coachella, and Cyberspace: Six Poetry Collections to Read in July

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  July 1, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    On Co-Writing, Belonging, and Punishing Your Characters: Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in Conversation

    By Literary Hub  July 1, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  June 28, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  June 28, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Julia Phillips on the Writing Lessons of Fairy Tales

    By Julia Phillips  June 28, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Ann Beattie! Mysterious Korean SF! Colin Channer! 26 books out in paperback this July.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 28, 2024
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of June

    By AudioFile Magazine  June 28, 2024
    Trauma

    Beauty in Discomfort: In Defense of the Trauma Narrative

    By Emily Usher  June 28, 2024
    Westerns

    New Mythologies of the Frontier: A Neo-Western Reading List

    By Kent Wascom  June 27, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am the Literary Asshole For Wanting to Tell People Their Writing Sucks?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 27, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 27, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Tara M. Stringfellow Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 27, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 27, 2024
    Indie Presses

    How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

    By Adam Smyth  June 26, 2024
    Autofiction

    Generation Franchise:
    Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

    By Jess Row  June 26, 2024
    Diaries

    Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the Subtle Art of Diary Keeping

    By Helen Fielding  June 26, 2024
    Characters

    Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel

    By Alana Saab  June 26, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 26, 2024
    Book Auction

    In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane

    By Bradford Morrow  June 25, 2024
    On Grief

    How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

    By Cody Delistraty  June 25, 2024
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