• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 18, 2022
    Jane Austen

    How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

    By Anna Beer  November 18, 2022
    Songwriting

    Someone Has to Say It: Bob Dylan’s New Book Would Have Been Better as a Podcast

    By Natalia Holtzman  November 18, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 17, 2022
    Medieval Literature

    A Plethora of Penises: How People Wrote About Sex in the Middle Ages

    By Katherine Harvey  November 17, 2022
    Criticism

    Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 17, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Dealing with Financial Anxiety in Friendships

    By Dorothea   November 17, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Anna Moschovakis is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  November 17, 2022
    What to Watch

    The New Adaptation of Fleishman Is in Trouble Knows What to Do with Its Extra Space

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 16, 2022
    Otherppl

    “In Some Ways Immigration is Like an Apocalypse.” Pete Hsu on Writing About the Aftermath of Immigrating

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 16, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

    By Brigitta Olubas  November 15, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Nick Hornby Understands the Pitfalls of Giving Novels as Gifts

    By Literary Hub  November 15, 2022
    new books tuesday

    12 new books to look forward to this week.

    By Katie Yee  November 15, 2022
    Poetry

    On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

    By Cat Fitzpatrick  November 15, 2022
    Classics

    Sofia Coppola in Praise of Edith Wharton’s Beloved Antiheroine, Undine Spragg

    By Sofia Coppola  November 15, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Elisa Gabbert on the Performance of Self in Poetry (Versus Prose)

    By I'm a Writer But   November 15, 2022
    Otherppl

    Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, and S.A. Griffin on the Heart of Beat Literature

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 15, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Kevin Wilson on the Ease of Writing in the 90s and His New Novel, Now is Not the Time to Panic

    By So Many Damn Books  November 15, 2022
    Relationships

    Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

    By Chip Livingston  November 14, 2022
    Language

    Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning

    By Ben Yagoda  November 14, 2022
    Write-minded

    David Yoon on Writing Racial Dynamics in YA Fiction

    By Write-minded   November 14, 2022
    University Presses

    This Year’s University Press Week Highlights Work on Race, Religion, War, and More

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Ross Gay: “It’s Never Been the Institutions, It’s Always Been Our Neighbor.”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 14, 2022
    The Sea

    A Brief History of Shipwrecks in Literature

    By Alan G. Jamieson  November 11, 2022
    Essays

    Alexander Chee on the Perpetual Importance of the Essay

    By Steve Wieberg  November 11, 2022
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