• Literary Criticism

    Latin American Literature

    Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make One Hundred Years of Solitude the Success It Is Today?

    By Álvaro Santana-Acuña  September 11, 2020
    On Love

    Why I Walked Away From War and Peace… Forever

    By John Maher  September 11, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Daniel Mendelsohn on How Greek Tragedy Speaks to Our Present Moment

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 11, 2020
    Classical Music

    Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

    By Olivia Giovetti  September 10, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have
    Missed in August

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 10, 2020
    Biography

    Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

    By Sherrill Grace  September 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, read by Ethan Herisse

    By Behind the Mic   September 10, 2020
    What to Read Next

    11 Great Books You Probably Haven’t Read (But Should)

    By Emily Temple  September 9, 2020
    Classics

    Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the
    Art of Digression

    By John Freeman  September 9, 2020
    On Race

    Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of All American Boys

    By Katy Hershberger  September 9, 2020
    Empire

    On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

    By Matt Sandler  September 9, 2020
    On Craft

    Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction’s Lost Performative

    By Mary Cappello  September 9, 2020
    Folklore

    The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

    By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi  September 9, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Why It’s Worth Reading T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Even When It’s a Slog)

    By History of Literature  September 8, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

    By Behind the Mic   September 8, 2020
    In Memoriam

    William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life’s Smaller Moments

    By Sonny Brewer  September 4, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On the Children’s Book So Bad, So Inauthentic… It Was Good?

    By NewberyTart   September 4, 2020
    Great Authors

    “Will I Come to a Miserable End?” Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

    By Jenny Erpenbeck  September 3, 2020
    Reading Lists

    A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

    By Literary Hub  September 3, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of In Cold Blood

    By Emily Temple  September 2, 2020
    Reading Women

    Reading Women Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

    By Reading Women  September 2, 2020
    Literary Disco

    When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

    By Literary Disco  September 1, 2020
    Irish Literature

    The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

    By R. F. Foster  August 31, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

    By Caryl Emerson  August 31, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The Ecstasy of Reading (and Rereading) Anna Karenina

    By History of Literature  August 31, 2020
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