• Literary Criticism

    On Poetry

    Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

    By Joseph Earp  September 26, 2022
    Violence

    When Male Authors Write Male Violence

    By Philippa Snow  September 26, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

    By Literary Hub  September 26, 2022
    The History of Literature

    There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

    By History of Literature  September 26, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 23, 2022
    Criticism

    Mario Vargas Llosa on Retrospective, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

    By Mario Vargas Llosa  September 23, 2022
    Punk

    Read These If You Aren’t A Poseur: Books That Embody The Punk Ethos

    By Tea Hacic-Vlahovic  September 23, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Andrew Sean Greer is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 22, 2022
    Reading Lists

    5 Books Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 22, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Ultimate Fall 2022 Books Preview

    By Emily Temple  September 21, 2022
    Artists

    How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol’s Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

    By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth  September 21, 2022
    Climate Change

    Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

    By Alan Rossi  September 21, 2022
    Classic Novels

    Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia

    By Maggie O'Farrell  September 20, 2022
    In Conversation

    Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

    By Chloé Cooper Jones  September 19, 2022
    Fragmentary Essays

    Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

    By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
    Education

    Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

    By Deborah Appleman  September 19, 2022
    Folklore

    In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

    By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore  September 19, 2022
    WWII

    When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

    By Tanya Paperny  September 16, 2022
    Books In Translation

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  September 16, 2022
    Recap

    Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

    By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2022
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