• Literary Criticism

    Solitude

    Why We Should Reach Out When We’re Lonely—Even If No One Answers

    By Ethan Chatagnier  October 18, 2022
    New Books Tuesdays

    13 new books to cling to this week.

    By Katie Yee  October 18, 2022
    First Draft

    Andrea Barrett on Needing Stories to Weave Together the “Jumble of Perceptions”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 17, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Dan Sheehan  October 14, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: On Dealing with Loss and Finding Community

    By Dorothea   October 14, 2022
    In Conversation

    75 Years of Goodnight Moon: Today’s Best Writers Reflect on a Children’s Classic

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  October 14, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Ling Ma: Why Every Story Comes From an Entry Point of Wish Fulfillment

    By The Maris Review  October 13, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    A.M. Homes on Being—For Better or Worse—“a Very American Writer”

    By Literary Hub  October 13, 2022
    On Poetry

    Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

    By Robert Pinsky  October 13, 2022
    Criticism

    Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What Is to Be Done About Literary Moralism?

    By A. Natasha Joukovsky  October 13, 2022
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 13, 2022
    On Poetry

    The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa

    By Philip Metres  October 13, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 13, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Lynn Melnick and Hafizah Augustus Geter Talk All Things Dolly Parton

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 13, 2022
    Poetry

    Life in a Distant Land: A Conversation with Poet Kathleen Rooney

    By Robert Puccinelli  October 12, 2022
    Thresholds

    Endnotes on Ghosts: Patrick Cottrell, Lynn Steger Strong, and More Voices from Thresholds

    By Thresholds   October 12, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Lydia Millet on Long Extinct Creatures and Boundaries Real and Imaginary

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 11, 2022
    Sci-Fi

    How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

    By Lisa Yaszek  October 11, 2022
    Sex

    When Less Is More: On Writing Sex and Violence

    By Reine Arcache Melvin  October 11, 2022
    Shelf Talkers

    Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Boswell Book Company

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2022
    The Hub

    20 new books to get you through the week.

    By Katie Yee  October 11, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  October 7, 2022
    Narrative Structures

    Many Voices, One Story: A Multi-Perspective Novel Reading List

    By Rubén Degollado  October 7, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Alice Notley on Writing from Dreams

    By Alice Notley  October 7, 2022
    New Books Network

    Victor Manibo’s Take on Unreliable Narrators in His Debut Mystery The Sleepless

    By New Books Network  October 7, 2022
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