• Literary Criticism

    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
    Virginia Woolf

    She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

    By Heather O'Neill  August 28, 2020
    Diarists

    Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

    By Eric Weiner  August 28, 2020
    Latin American Literature

    Carlos Fonseca on Harnessing the Literary Power of Tedium

    By Juan Toledo  August 28, 2020
    Craft

    The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic

    By Eugen Bacon  August 27, 2020
    Westerns

    On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America’s Surreal Borderlands

    By Mike Soto  August 26, 2020
    Indigenous Lit

    Joy Harjo on the Diverse, Groundbreaking World of Indigenous Poetry

    By Joy Harjo  August 26, 2020
    Adaptations

    Was The Graduate Inspired by a Brontë Family Scandal?

    By Finola Austin  August 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Do we really need another book about Henry David Thoreau?

    By Jonny Diamond  August 25, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Rediscovering Drawing During Lockdown

    By David Farrier  August 25, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir, Read by Rosalyn Landor

    By Behind the Mic   August 25, 2020
    The History of Literature

    What Does Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Offer Readers Today?

    By History of Literature  August 24, 2020
    Migrations

    In Life as in Mythology, Greece is a Place of Frustrated Migrations

    By Matteo Nucci  August 24, 2020
    First Draft

    Benjamin Nugent on Writing About Male Privilege After #MeToo

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 24, 2020
    Classic Novels

    Dear Catcher in the Rye:
    A Love Letter

    By Mary O'Connell  August 21, 2020
    Flash Fiction

    13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

    By Grant Faulkner  August 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Dante Alighieri Invented Italy

    By New Books Network  August 21, 2020
    Great Authors

    Growing Up With Ray Bradbury’s Ghost in Waukegan, Illinois

    By Colleen Abel  August 21, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Why You Should Trust Your Reading Instincts (and an Ode to Aimee Bender)

    By So Many Damn Books  August 21, 2020
    Craft

    On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel
    in Threes

    By David Lerner Schwartz  August 20, 2020
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