Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

"This spring, I fell in love with John Gower, who died in 1408."

By Katherine Churchill | November 15, 2023

Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

On Death Comes for the Archbishop and Literary Neighbors

By Kali Fajardo-Anstine | November 14, 2023

On the False Promise of Climate Fiction 

On the False Promise of Climate Fiction 

Are We Already Beyond Raising Awareness?

By Emma Pattee | November 14, 2023

My Feral Shelf: On Building a Personal Library of Bad Behavior

My Feral Shelf: On Building a Personal Library of Bad Behavior

Jennifer Lucy Allan on Mischief, Bad Habits, and Lust for Life (in Books)

By Jennifer Lucy Allan | November 14, 2023

40 Books to Understand Palestine

40 Books to Understand Palestine

From Ghassan Kanafani's "Men in the Sun" to Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail"

By Literary Hub | November 14, 2023

What Working Minimum-Wage Jobs Taught Me About Writing Novels

What Working Minimum-Wage Jobs Taught Me About Writing Novels

Joanne McNeil on Patricia Highsmith, Classism, and Finding Raw Material in Staff Workrooms

By Joanne McNeil | November 14, 2023

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Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Literary Hub | November 13, 2023

Tatiana Johnson-Boria on Writing Poems Like Film Montages

By Literary Hub | November 13, 2023

The History of Writing is the History of Humanity

By Walter Stephens | November 10, 2023

Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups

Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups

Hannah Sloane on the Romance Genre, Celebrating Being Single, and How She Wrote Her Debut Novel

By Hannah Sloane | November 10, 2023

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Sigrid Nunez, Barbra Streisand, Ed Park, and More

By Book Marks | November 10, 2023

Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 9, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A 970-page victory lap past all who ever doubted, diminished or dissed her."

By Book Marks | November 9, 2023

Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | November 8, 2023

Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime

Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime

On Crime Storytelling and Why Aiming for Closure Can Be Problematic

By Lindsay Hunter | November 7, 2023

Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s <em>Miss Macintosh, My Darling</em>

Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling

"The book was an artifact upon arrival, a tricky thing for the new of avant-garde to be."

By Drew Johnson | November 7, 2023

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