How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

Keenan Norris Recommends Paul Beatty, Fran Ross,
Mat Johnson, and More

By Keenan Norris | June 22, 2021

Unmoored in a City of Ruins: On the Revelatory Power of Samuel R. Delany’s <em>Dhalgren</em>

Unmoored in a City of Ruins: On the Revelatory Power of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

Joss Lake Considers the Profound and Best-Selling
Science Fiction Novel

By Joss Lake | June 22, 2021

Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

Claire Heywood on Rewriting Mythology From the Woman’s Perspective

By Claire Heywood | June 22, 2021

20 new books to buy from your local indie (instead of you know where).

20 new books to buy from your local indie (instead of you know where).

By Katie Yee | June 22, 2021

The Top 10 Things to Love About <em>Hamlet</em>

The Top 10 Things to Love About Hamlet

Laurie Frankel Guests on the History of Literature with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | June 21, 2021

Unpacking the Enigma of George Orwell

Unpacking the Enigma of George Orwell

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | June 21, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • The Pelican Child: Stories
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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
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  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

By Jonny Diamond | June 18, 2021

Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

By The Common | June 18, 2021

On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

By Brandon P. Fleming | June 18, 2021

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

Shya Scanlon on Oyler, Lockwood, Wilder, Boyle, and More

By Shya Scanlon | June 17, 2021

Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

Veronica Esposito on Michelle Orange’s Pure Flame

By Veronica Esposito | June 17, 2021

<em>White Fungus</em> Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | June 17, 2021

Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

Ellen Barkin Narrates Yours, for Probably Always

By Janet Somerville | June 16, 2021

Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel... Even a Novel?

Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel... Even a Novel?

Benjamin Hedin on the Formal Mastery of The Lives of Girls and Women

By Benjamin Hedin | June 16, 2021

When You’re Always Going to Be the Second-Most Famous Writer in Your Marriage

When You’re Always Going to Be the Second-Most Famous Writer in Your Marriage

Neal Allen on Living the Writerly Life with Anne Lamott

By Neal Allen | June 16, 2021

In Praise of Aging Protagonists in Literature

In Praise of Aging Protagonists in Literature

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | June 16, 2021

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