• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 16, 2023
    Friendship

    Poetry in Three Dimensions: Sarah Ruhl on Bringing the Words of Max Ritvo to the Theater

    By Sarah Ruhl  March 16, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Just the Right Book: What We’re Excited About This Week

    By Just the Right Book   March 16, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Editor-Turned-Author Jenny Jackson on the Other Side of the Editorial Process

    By The Maris Review  March 16, 2023
    Otherppl

    Gina Frangello on the Editorial Omniscient and Why We Should All Be Using it

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 16, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

    By Ann Napolitano  March 15, 2023
    What to Watch

    Skeletons in the Closet: On Mad Men and White America’s Willful Amnesia

    By Kelly Shetron  March 15, 2023
    In Memoriam

    “This Boy is Going to Be a Writer.” Remembering Paul La Farge’s Childhood

    By Wendy Walker  March 15, 2023
    Queer Literature

    Growing Up Queer: A Coming-of-Age Reading List

    By Richard Mirabella  March 15, 2023
    Jobs

    On Millennial Writers and the Need for New Narratives of Work

    By Bryony Lau  March 15, 2023
    Autofiction

    Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

    By DK Nnuro  March 15, 2023
    Thresholds

    Sarah Thankam Mathews on Her Brush with Mortality and the “Sourdough Starter of Ego Death”

    By Thresholds   March 15, 2023
    Interview with a Poet

    Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

    By Peter Mishler  March 15, 2023
    NBCC Awards

    30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

    By Literary Hub  March 14, 2023
    Essay

    How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

    By Cathleen Schine  March 14, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  March 14, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   March 14, 2023
    Otherppl

    “I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 14, 2023
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to check out this week.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 14, 2023
    Language

    Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books

    By Theo Downes-Le Guin  March 13, 2023
    Book Festivals

    Why Philip Roth, Why Now?

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2023
    Writing

    Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval  March 13, 2023
    Philosophy

    The Female Philosophers Unjustly Excluded from the Canon

    By Regan Penaluna  March 13, 2023
    Plot

    The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

    By Samuel Ligon  March 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, The Human Stain, and a Novelist’s Right to Tell Other People’s Stories

    By Keen On  March 13, 2023
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