• Literary Criticism

    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Mikhal Dekel on Anna Karenina, Dubliners, and A Room of One’s Own

    By Book Marks  December 1, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 1, 2021
    The Writing Life

    From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers On Their Day Jobs

    By Emily Alexander  November 30, 2021
    Classic Reviews

    “A Piece of Careless Hackwork.” Read the First Reviews of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    By Book Marks  November 30, 2021
    Free Speech

    Why Writers Shouldn’t Wait for Permission to Create the Stories They Want

    By James Hannaham  November 30, 2021
    Gifts

    44 Writers on Their Favorite Books to Give as Presents

    By Book Marks  November 30, 2021
    Literary History

    The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

    By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
    new books tuesday

    12 new books hitting shelves this week.

    By Katie Yee  November 30, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Why Do Some Stories Survive the Test of Time?

    By The Cosmic Library   November 30, 2021
    Arab Literature

    How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

    By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
    Literary History

    Francine Prose on Her Encounters with the Literary Strange

    By Francine Prose  November 29, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Last Essay I Need to Write about David Foster Wallace

    By Mary K. Holland  November 29, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Eliza Haywood’s Explorations of Gender Politics and Sexual Passion

    By History of Literature  November 29, 2021
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Mina Seçkin on Ferrante, Nabokov, and The Phantom Tollbooth

    By Book Marks  November 24, 2021
    FUSE

    Maggie Nelson and Tala Madani on Fear in Artmaking and How Magic Can Save Us All 


    By FUSE: A BOMB Podcast   November 24, 2021
    TV

    What Lovecraft Country Gave to Black Audiences

    By James Andrew Miller  November 24, 2021
    Reading Lists

    “Territories of the Uncanny.” A Reading List of the Irreal

    By Helen Chau Bradley  November 24, 2021
    Storytelling

    Why Stories Are Like Taking Drugs

    By Jonathan Gottschall  November 24, 2021
    The Hub

    11 new books to be grateful for this week.

    By Katie Yee  November 23, 2021
    Language

    In Search of Words for the Most Obscure Sorrows

    By John Koenig  November 23, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Supernatural, Scooby Doo Vibes of The Hound of the Baskervilles

    By Lit Century   November 23, 2021
    Recommended Reading

    “Magnificent Hybrids.” David Mitchell on the Alchemy of A.S. Byatt’s Stories

    By David Mitchell  November 23, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Gus Moreno on Following the Fear in His Writing

    By So Many Damn Books  November 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Why George Eliot disparaged “silly novels by lady novelists.”

    By Vanessa Willoughby  November 22, 2021
    The Hub

    n+1’s Bookmatch told me what to get every hard-to-shop-for weirdo in my life.

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 22, 2021
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