• Craft and Criticism

    The Writing Life

    When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

    By Simon Leser  February 26, 2021
    Horror

    The Best Nightmarish Fiction:
    A Reading List

    By Angela Buck  February 26, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body

    By The Literary Life  February 26, 2021
    Jewish American Authors

    A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

    By Catherine Rottenberg  February 26, 2021
    Queer Identity

    The (Semi-Hidden) History of Queer Pregnancy in Literature

    By Alicia Andrzejewski  February 26, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore

    By Marion Winik  February 26, 2021
    New Books Network

    Something Old, Something New: Arranged Marriage In a Time-Traveling Future

    By New Books Network  February 26, 2021
    End Times

    The Dark World of
    Rapture Fiction

    By William J. Bernstein  February 25, 2021
    Native American Literature

    Joy Harjo on the Poetic Lyricism and Subversive Native Storytelling of James Welch

    By Joy Harjo  February 25, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

    By Stephanie Burt  February 25, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Patricia Lockwood: ‘I Like to Give People a Very Vertiginous Whiplash’

    By The Maris Review  February 25, 2021
    The Hub

    I think about this tiny detail from The Talented Mr. Ripley all the time.

    By Emily Temple  February 24, 2021
    The Internet

    Beatifying Patricia Lockwood: “I Worry That She Hasn’t Had Enough Fun.”

    By Mary Gordon  February 24, 2021
    Quizzes

    How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

    By Emily Temple  February 24, 2021
    Gothic Literature

    Jonathan Lethem: Why Shirley Jackson is a Reader’s Writer

    By Jonathan Lethem  February 24, 2021
    Theater

    On the Erudite Chaos of Tom Stoppard’s Most Complex Play

    By Hermione Lee  February 24, 2021
    WMFA

    Lauren Oyler: In Defense of Autofiction

    By WMFA   February 24, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: She Come by It Natural by Sarah Smarsh

    By Colette Bancroft  February 24, 2021
    Teaching High School

    Teaching Appalachian Lit to West Virginia High Schoolers

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 24, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jenny Offill on the Ambition of Short Novels

    By Reading Women  February 24, 2021
    Thresholds

    Lydia Millet on Letting the Work Change You

    By Thresholds   February 24, 2021
    Otherppl

    David Tromblay: ‘I Knew My Story Wasn’t Only My Story’

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 24, 2021
    Problematic Faves

    How I Ruined Goodnight Moon for Karen on Goodreads

    By Julia Fine  February 23, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Flight Patterns: Reading of the Creatures of the Air

    By Matthew Gavin Frank  February 23, 2021
    Lit Century

    Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard: Further Evidence That All Stories Are Hauntings

    By Lit Century   February 23, 2021
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