• Literary Criticism

    Sci-Fi

    How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

    By Joshua Glenn  August 7, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Exploring Literary New Orleans

    By History of Literature  August 7, 2023
    Dystopias

    Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

    By Madeline Ashby  August 4, 2023
    On Translation

    In Praise of “Spicy Interpretation”: On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

    By Jessica Sequeira  August 4, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  August 4, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture and the Summer of Love or Hate

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 3, 2023
    Myths and Legends

    Wherefore Art Thou Arthur?: On What Lies Behind Our National Myths and Legends

    By Victoria Gosling  August 3, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Shane McCrae Is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

    By Hannah Bonner  August 3, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 3, 2023
    Queer Literature

    How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

    By Shastri Akella  July 31, 2023
    Indian Literature

    Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri’s The Immortals

    By Pankaj Mishra  July 31, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood’s Darkly Humorous Great Granny Webster

    By Lucy Scholes  July 31, 2023
    The History of Literature

    The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

    By History of Literature  July 31, 2023
    Reading Lists

    July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  July 28, 2023
    Reading Lists

    July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  July 28, 2023
    On Writing

    How My Library Patrons Unexpectedly Helped Me Finish My Novel

    By Laura Sims  July 27, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 27, 2023
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 27, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Donovan X. Ramsey on How Media Sensationalized Crack

    By The Maris Review  July 27, 2023
    The Hub

    Weird, funny, dark children’s books that I can recommend (as an adult, however).

    By Janet Manley  July 26, 2023
    Sex

    The New Sex Writing: In Praise of the “Idiotic Erotic”

    By Tamara Faith Berger  July 26, 2023
    Queer Literature

    A Queer Reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses in Northern England

    By Helen Palmer  July 26, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

    By Jonathan Galassi  July 25, 2023
    Cats

    Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

    By Terrance Hayes  July 25, 2023
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