• Literary Criticism

    Horror

    So, you want to read some horror? Here’s a spooky season starter kit for the genre-curious.

    By Drew Broussard  October 1, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Ta-Nehisi Coates! Joyce Carol Oates! Karl Ove Knausgaard! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 1, 2024
    Russian Literature

    Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

    By Forrest Gander  October 1, 2024
    In Conversation

    Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

    By Joy Castro  October 1, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Witchcraft! Ross Gay! Sonic Youth! Bryan Washington! 27 new books out in paperback this October.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 1, 2024
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Banned Books and Rooneymania: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   September 27, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 27, 2024
    Moral Panics

    Life Imitates Art: On The Sorrows of Young Werther, Moral Panic and the Power of Books

    By Ed Simon  September 27, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 27, 2024
    In Conversation

    The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

    By Peter Mishler  September 27, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Garth Greenwell Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 27, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 26, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Isabella Hammad Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 26, 2024
    Literary History

    An Expat’s Homebase: How the Iconic Village Voice Bookshop in Paris Launched Lit Mags

    By Odile Hellier  September 26, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Myriam J.A. Chancy on Haitian American Communities

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 26, 2024
    History of Science

    The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

    By John MacNeill Miller  September 25, 2024
    Palestinian Literature

    Isabella Hammad’s (Incomplete) Essential List of Books About Palestine

    By Isabella Hammad  September 24, 2024
    In Conversation

    On Returning to and Reinterpreting the Classics: Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with Translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones

    By Literary Hub  September 24, 2024
    Romance

    Messy, Impractical and Irresistible: In Praise of Over-the-Top Romance

    By Nora Nguyen  September 24, 2024
    Young Adult

    Middle Grade for All Ages: 10 Great Books with Strong Tween Characters

    By Stuart Gibbs  September 24, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Sally Rooney! Olga Tokarczuk! Pedro Almodóvar! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 24, 2024
    Dystopias

    How Jack London Foresaw the Anti-Democratic Future With The Iron Heel

    By Ken McGoogan  September 23, 2024
    What to Read Next

    Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

    By Emily Temple  September 23, 2024
    Music Writing

    How Chinese and Italian Opera Helped Her Write and Grieve

    By Liu Hong  September 23, 2024
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