• Craft and Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books
    of the Month

    By Book Marks  March 31, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2021
    Incarcerated Writers

    Writing a Novel in Prison. In 30 Days. During a Pandemic.

    By Marya Brennan  March 31, 2021
    Reading Women

    Hala Alyan: Which Comes First—the Characters or the Politics?

    By Reading Women  March 31, 2021
    Book Origins

    On the Narrative Thrills of Detective Fiction

    By Amanda Dennis  March 31, 2021
    Keen On

    Are Extraterrestrials Social Distancing from Us?

    By Keen On  March 31, 2021
    Thresholds

    Melissa Febos on Facing the Daunting Essay

    By Thresholds   March 31, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jacqueline Novogratz on the Need for Moral Imagination

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 31, 2021
    Rereadings

    Revisiting Speedboat in Search of a New York City That Never Really Existed

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2021
    Immigration stories

    Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 30, 2021
    Motherhood

    A Room of One’s Own Sounds Great… But What If You’re a Mom?

    By Ilona Bannister  March 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Sherry Turkle on AI and the Perils of Pretend Empathy

    By Keen On  March 30, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in The Women of
    Brewster Place

    By Lit Century   March 30, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Nathalie Etoke on Joy as “Rebellious Vitality”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 30, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    Bridged: How the Art of Writing Can Close the Divide Between Worlds

    By Jennifer De Leon  March 29, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Reckoning with Nabokov’s Classic, Controversial Lolita

    By History of Literature  March 29, 2021
    Public Intellectuals

    A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
    Edward Said

    By Timothy Brennan  March 29, 2021
    First Draft

    Dantiel W. Moniz on Imposter Syndrome and the Morbidity
    of Girlhood

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 29, 2021
    Children's Literature

    How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  March 27, 2021
    The Hub

    The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.

    By Emily Temple  March 26, 2021
    Literary History

    When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

    By Alex Christofi  March 26, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: NOON

    By Vanessa Willoughby  March 26, 2021
    How to Proceed

    Deborah Levy on the Retrospective Mood of the Pandemic

    By How to Proceed   March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    Close Reading

    Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

    By Daniel Heller-Roazen  March 26, 2021
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