No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of "Ye Olde" in English

Hana Videen on Chaucer, Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English

By Hana Videen | October 10, 2023

Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

Phillip Metres on Political Literature, Classical Forms, and What Outsiders Get Wrong About Russian Poetry

By Philip Metres | October 10, 2023

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

But Adam Dalva Tries Anyway

By Adam Dalva | October 9, 2023

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

"Bless the novels that provide accounts of the world that came before."

By Ann Patchett | October 9, 2023

Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

Joyelle McSweeney Considers Hussein Barghouthi's The Blue Light and Kim Hyesoon's Phantom Pain Wings

By Joyelle McSweeney | October 9, 2023

Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

Allegories, Companions, Advisor, Otherworldly, and Outsiders

By Dan Hope | October 6, 2023

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Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

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Alex Reisner on Covering Books3 and Fighting Piracy

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C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 5, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A hilarious revolt against the aggressive godlessness, dehumanization and fear plaguing our time."

By Book Marks | October 5, 2023

Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of <em>Roaming</em>

Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of Roaming

In Praise of a Graphic Novel Whose Slice-of-Life Normalcy Provides "a Subtle Fuck-You to the Book-Banners"

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 2, 2023

The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

Lucy Scholes Reads Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit

By Lucy Scholes | October 2, 2023

Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 2, 2023

September's Best Reviewed Fiction

September's Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Zadie Smith, Anne Enright, Lauren Groff, and More

By Book Marks | September 29, 2023

September's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

September's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Featuring New Titles by Jonathan Raban, Annie Ernaux, Naomi Klein, and More

By Book Marks | September 29, 2023

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