• Literary Criticism

    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
    Everything Was Beautiful

    How to Celebrate 100 Years of Kurt Vonnegut

    By Literary Hub  November 11, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 11, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Full Disclosure: Meghan J. Ward on Marriage, Motherhood, and Weighing the Truth in Memoir

    By Meghan J. Ward  November 11, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nancy Pelosi’s Majority: Matthew Clark Davison’s San Francisco Take on a National Leader

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 10, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Sleepy Commutes and Short Attention Spans

    By Dorothea   November 10, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 10, 2022
    Interview with a Poet

    Sandra Simonds on Piecing Together Poetic Puzzles

    By Peter Mishler  November 10, 2022
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Avoidance

    By Michele Filgate  November 10, 2022
    Thresholds

    Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Gender Identity and Narratives Drawn from the Body

    By Thresholds   November 10, 2022
    Pilgrimages

    Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 9, 2022
    Interviews

    Meet the 2022 National Book Award Finalists

    By Emily Temple  November 9, 2022
    Otherppl

    Lynn Steger Strong: “Oh, Shit. I Wrote a Domestic Novel. I’m a Woman. What Did I Do?”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 9, 2022
    Elections

    Reading Through the Midterms: Finding Bipartisanship with Books on the Front Lines of Democracy

    By Kristopher Jansma  November 8, 2022
    Mythology

    Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    By Stephanie McCarter  November 8, 2022
    literary criticism

    A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard

    By Lynn Steger Strong  November 8, 2022
    Children's Literature

    On Harold of the Purple Crayon and the Value of an Imaginative Journey

    By Ross Ellenhorn  November 8, 2022
    In Conversation

    “Blown Apart by Love and Grief.” Catherine Newman in Conversation with Debra Jo Immergut

    By Debra Jo Immergut  November 8, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Writing Rap Music About Nabokov

    By Twitterverse   November 8, 2022
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