• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Aria Aber, Y2K, Pico Iyer, and More

     
    By Book Marks  January 17, 2025
    Colonialism

    The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

    By James H. Sweet  January 17, 2025
    Adaptations

    What Would Gabriel García Márquez Have Thought of the Netflix Version of His Novel?

    By Ariel Dorfman  January 16, 2025
    Publishing

    How to Talk About Your Own Book

    By Maris Kreizman  January 16, 2025
    Publishing

    We, the First Readers: On What It Means to Publish a Book

    By Luis Schwarcz  January 16, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 16, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

    By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
    Girlhood

    Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

    Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

    By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum  January 17, 2025
    Forgery

    The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

    By Bradford Morrow  January 14, 2025
    Retellings

    From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

    By Maria Zoccola  January 14, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  January 14, 2025
    Representation

    In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

    For Edward Underhill, “The fullness of life comes from the struggle.”

    By Edward Underhill  January 14, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Pico Iyer! Helen of Troy in the ’90s! An African history of Africa! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 14, 2025
    In Conversation

    Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

    By Literary Hub  January 13, 2025
    Literature and Politics

    He Got Away With Everything: Reading True Grit After the Reelection of Donald Trump

    By Piers Gelly  January 10, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Adam Haslett, Spotify, Karissa Chen, and More

    By Book Marks  January 10, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 9, 2025
    On Race

    Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

    By Naomi Day  January 9, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  January 9, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad

    In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 9, 2025
    On Race

    Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America’s Criminal Justice System

    By Irvin Weathersby Jr.  January 8, 2025
    literary criticism

    Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

    By Lauren Groff  January 7, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
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