• Craft and Criticism

    The Year in Reading

    H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
    in Reading

    By H.M. Naqvi  December 16, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kim Stafford on Poetry
    as Service

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams’s Bromance Book Club

    By Reading Women  December 16, 2020
    Otherppl

    Alex Branson: Treat Your Characters As People, Not Vessels of Forgiveness

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 16, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 16, 2020
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

    By Elizabeth Connor  December 15, 2020
    Book Covers

    On the Glory Days of the Great
    American Trade Paperback

    By Gerald Howard  December 15, 2020
    Ghosts!

    The Restless Ghost Stories
    of M. R. James

    By Adam Scovell  December 15, 2020
    French Classics

    Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time?

    By Saul Friedländer  December 15, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Emily Temple on Trippy Fiction and Summer Camps as Cults

    By So Many Damn Books  December 15, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Sylvia Plath’s Use of Tastelessness in Ariel

    By Lit Century   December 15, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Fiction
    of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 15, 2020
    Autofiction

    Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

    By Marion Winik  December 14, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Fiction of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2020
    Comics

    Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for
    Comic Book Artists

    By Robert K. Elder  December 14, 2020
    Oral Histories

    What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

    By Mauro Javier Cárdenas  December 14, 2020
    On Translation

    On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

    By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
    The History of Literature

    To Read or Not to Read Proust’s Swann’s Way

    By History of Literature  December 14, 2020
    First Draft

    Cynan Jones on the Strange Visions That Appear in
    His Novels

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 14, 2020
    Black Arts

    Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham on Social Media, Black Futurity,
    and the Archive

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 11, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Poetry
    Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 11, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Top 10 Most Totally Metal
    Books of 2020

    By Keaton Patterson  December 11, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in Agaat

    By Mary Gaitskill  December 11, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jorie Graham: Are We Still Capable of Being Custodians of the Future?

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 11, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: The Rally Reading Series, Co-Hosted by The Rumpus

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 11, 2020
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