• Craft and Criticism

    The Maris Review

    Rebecca Carroll on Learning There Isn’t One Way to Be Black

    By The Maris Review  February 18, 2021
    New Books Network

    Kathleen Williams Renk Recreates the Inner World of Mary Shelley

    By New Books Network  February 18, 2021
    On Craft

    The Best Sex I Ever Had Was (Also) a Narrative Structure

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  February 17, 2021
    Short Novels

    50 Great Classic Novels
    Under 200 Pages

    By Emily Temple  February 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza

    By Richard Z. Santos  February 17, 2021
    Robots

    Have Robots… Always Been With Us?

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  February 17, 2021
    Character

    Why I Wrote a Novel Full of Secondary Characters

    By María José Ferrada  February 17, 2021
    History

    On the Our Town Spin-Off That Served as WWII Spirit Building

    By Howard Sherman  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    15 new books to hunker down with.

    By Katie Yee  February 16, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Teenage Angst of 20th-Century Literature

    By Lit Century   February 16, 2021
    Identity

    Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

    By Paisley Rekdal  February 16, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Locked Down in Denmark, Learning a Language and Finishing a Novel

    By Maria Adelmann  February 16, 2021
    New Books Network

    Does Regency-Era Opium Use Explain Anne de Bourgh of Pride and Prejudice?

    By New Books Network  February 16, 2021
    First Draft

    Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 16, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Lovability of Keats

    By History of Literature  February 16, 2021
    Art and Politics

    No Failure of Imagination: Gina Apostol on Revolution, Illusion, and Translation

    By Sabina Murray  February 16, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Is Crime Fiction Just Resting on Its Laurels at This Point?

    By Literary Disco  February 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  February 12, 2021
    Punk

    Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

    By Neil Gaiman  February 12, 2021
    Identity

    Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

    By Simon Han  February 12, 2021
    Love

    25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
    Lit Crit

    The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

    By Diana Rose Newby  February 12, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    On Narrating Classics, Historical Romances, and More

    By Behind the Mic   February 12, 2021
    Memory

    Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
    From the Past

    By Maël Renouard  February 12, 2021
    Research

    How Being an Airbnb Host and Cleaning Toilets Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Kate Russo  February 12, 2021
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