• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    Featuring Michael Clune, the Everly Brothers, Linn Ullman, and More

     
    By Book Marks  July 25, 2025
    Craft

    On Hybrid Writing: Finding the Right Container for the Story You Need to Tell

    By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante  July 25, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 24, 2025
    Palestine

    On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 24, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith, and American Authoritarians

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 24, 2025
    Hybridity

    On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

    By Melody Glenn  July 23, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Faith

    Searching For Divine Love: On the Literary Landscape of Conversion Experiences

    By Terry Nguyen  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
    Surrealism

    Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

    By Celia Bell  July 22, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Temptress, Shapeshifter, Bird, Fish: Seven Books That Explore the Myths of Sirens

    Kalie Cassidy Recommends Cassandra Khaw, Rose Sutherland, Emilia Hart, and More

    By Kalie Cassidy  July 25, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Sinéad O’Connor! Sin City! A “Jewish Jane Austen!” 21 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 22, 2025
    The Writing Life

    Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce

    By Ed Simon  July 21, 2025
    Comics

    If Charlie Brown Were a Socialist: On Beloved Argentine Comic Strip Mafalda

    By Alex Dueben  July 21, 2025
    On Grief

    The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

    Ruthie Ackerman: “We are everything that ever happened to us.”

    By Ruthie Ackerman  July 21, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 18, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

    By Emily Buchanan  July 18, 2025
    Queer Literature

    The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

    By Lida Maxwell  July 18, 2025
    Memoir

    Hala Alyan on Diaspora, the Limits of Healing, and Gaza as the Conscience of the World

    The Author of “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home” in Conversation With Sahar Delijani

    By Sahar Delijani  July 17, 2025
    Money

    Give It All Away? On the Literature of Effective Altruism

    By Ben Brooks  July 17, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 17, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 17, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones’s The Trouble of Color

    In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 16, 2025
    In Memoriam

    Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead

    By Ezra Fox  July 14, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

    By Rebecca Chace  July 14, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Literary Locales Found on No Map: Five Novels Set in Realistic But Imaginary Places

    By Dan Fesperman  July 22, 2025
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