• Literary Criticism

    Narrative

    From the Abstract to the Everyday: How Stories Dominate Every Facet of Our Lives

    By Peter Brooks  October 28, 2022
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Finding Solace in the Sad and Sapphic

    By Dorothea   October 27, 2022
    Food Writing

    “I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

    By Eliza Dumais  October 27, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Lydia Millet on the Lack of Empathetic Characters in Fiction

    By The Maris Review  October 27, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Billy-Ray Belcourt Discusses His Debut Novel, A Minor Chorus

    By The Virtual Book Channel  October 27, 2022
    Micro

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on What’s Gained by Losing Language

    By Micro   October 27, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ross Gay is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  October 27, 2022
    Scary Books

    Read These 10 Books That Actually Scared Us… If You Dare

    By Emily Temple  October 26, 2022
    Literary Scenes

    Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

    By Darryl Pinckney  October 26, 2022
    Thresholds

    “Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s Best Poems Are About Food

    By Thresholds   October 26, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non-Human in the Public Sphere

    By Twitterverse   October 25, 2022
    Small Presses

    In Service of the Avant Garde: On the Unlikely Success
    of Siglio Press

    By Elissa Schappell  October 25, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lee Child and Andrew Child on Discipline, Dread, and Writing Late at Night

    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2022
    Future Fables

    Listen to a Future Fable From Mieko Kawakami: “Sleep Is All Hers”

    By Future Fables  October 25, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Manuel Muñoz on Writing Through Uncertainty

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 25, 2022
    Micro

    Erika T. Wurth on Writing Horror as a Former Dorky Kid

    By Micro   October 25, 2022
    Shelf Talkers

    Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company

    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2022
    Keen On

    When 007 Was a Woman: A WWII Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny

    By Keen On  October 25, 2022
    new books tuesday

    16 new releases to support your out-of-control book-buying habit.

    By Katie Yee  October 25, 2022
    Parenting

    Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  October 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100

    By Literary Hub  October 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    How T.S. Eliot’s Therapeutic Practice Produced The Waste Land

    By David Barnes  October 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    How Modern is The Waste Land, After All?

    By Alok A. Khorana  October 24, 2022
    History of Literature

    How Was Your Ulysses?

    By History of Literature  October 24, 2022
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