Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

Vaishnavi Patel on Finding Inspiration from the Ramayana

By Vaishnavi Patel | April 28, 2022

The Last Poems of Les Murray

The Last Poems of Les Murray

From the Famed Australian Poet’s Collection, Continuous Creation

By Les Murray | April 27, 2022

AudioFile’s Best </br>Audiobooks of April

AudioFile’s Best
Audiobooks of April

The Month in Literary Listening

By Book Marks | April 27, 2022

There is a bell hooks Book for Every Season of Life

There is a bell hooks Book for Every Season of Life

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on the Liberatory Possibilities of Sexual Experience

By Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | April 27, 2022

Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | April 27, 2022

20 new books being published today.

20 new books being published today.

By Katie Yee | April 26, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

By Pamela Erens | April 26, 2022

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

By Lara Williams | April 26, 2022

Just How Depressing is Good Morning, Midnight?

By Lit Century | April 26, 2022

“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of <em>Notes of a Native Son</em>

“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of Notes of a Native Son

“He is trying very hard to write up to himself.”

By Book Marks | April 26, 2022

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

Julie Phillips Considers the Groundbreaking British Mother-Writers of the 1960s, from A.S. Byatt to Lorna Sage

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast

By The Cosmic Library | April 26, 2022

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Katie Bennett Measures the Emotional Toll of Writing a Feminist Recovery Story

By Katie Bennett | April 25, 2022

Yoko Tawada Captures the Unique Joys of Having an Uncategorizable Identity

Yoko Tawada Captures the Unique Joys of Having an Uncategorizable Identity

Yurina Yoshikawa on Scattered All Over the Earth and the Experience of Losing a Mother Tongue

By Yurina Yoshikawa | April 25, 2022

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

How To Write History While It’s Happening: Lessons From Tacitus

Richard Cohen on the Enduring Influence of One of Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Historians

By Richard Cohen | April 22, 2022

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

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