• Literary Criticism

    Literary Trends

    Desperately Seeking Bygone Media

    Ginny Hogan on Recent Books that Satisfy the Longing for Slow Communication

     
    By Ginny Hogan  August 22, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

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

    By Book Marks  August 22, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 21, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Cheat on My “Literary” Novel?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 21, 2025
    Lesbian Literature

    On the Past and Future of Lesbian Pulp

    By Trish Bendix  August 21, 2025
    Criticism

    Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

    By Katie Kitamura  August 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Translation

    On Discovering My Aunt Eleni’s Place in Queer Greek Literature

    By Natalie Bakopoulos  August 21, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Khadijah Queen Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 21, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 21, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Nancy Reddy on Finding the Plot in Your Own Life

    “The most moving memoirs are the ones in which you see someone transformed.”

    By Nancy Reddy  August 22, 2025
    Children's Literature

    A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear

    By Daniel Horowitz  August 20, 2025
    literary criticism

    Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia

    By Charlie Jane Anders  August 19, 2025
    Sci-Fi

    Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

    By Susana M. Morris  August 19, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    James Baldwin! Octavia Butler! Deadwood! 20 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 19, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    Hiroshima at Eighty: Contemporary Literature as a Product of the Post-Nuclear World

    By Ed Simon  August 18, 2025
    Ukraine

    A Million Sour Cherry Orchards: Olia Hercules on Remembering the Ghosts of Ukraine

    By Olia Hercules  August 15, 2025
    Poetry

    “Old Song,” a Poem by Nima Hasan

    By Nima Hasan  August 15, 2025
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    “The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.”

    By Book Marks  August 14, 2025
    Exile

    Exile, Imprisonment, Aloneness: Emma Sloley on the Dark Allure of Writing About Islands

    By Emma Sloley  August 14, 2025
    History

    The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

    By Nathan Kernan  August 14, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 14, 2025
    Gaza

    The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

    From Inside the Besieged Strip, Alaa Alqaisi on Life as a “Sustained Dismantling of the Soul”

    By Alaa Alqaisi  August 13, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 13, 2025
    Literary History

    On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

    By Tim Queeney  August 12, 2025
    On Poetry

    Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

    By Ilya Kaminsky  August 20, 2025
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