• Literary Criticism

    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Danez Smith is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 22, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 22, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 22, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Glynne Walley on the Hakkenden

    By History of Literature  August 22, 2024
    Happiness

    Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

    By Maribeth Fischer  August 21, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    m. nourbeSe philip on Kamau Brathwaite’s Born to Slow Horses

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 21, 2024
    Literary Icons

    Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  August 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Lena Valencia on Chronicling the Beauty and Danger of the Desert

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 20, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Danez Smith! Audre Lorde! Kwame Dawes! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 20, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sofia Samatar on Collage, Literary Community, and the Stunning Loneliness of Publishing

    By Liska Jacobs  August 19, 2024
    craft advice

    Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

    By Ruben Reyes Jr.  August 19, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  August 16, 2024
    Anniversaries

    Evan S. Connell at 100: Ever the Elusive, Surprising, and Singular Conjurer

    By Steve Paul  August 16, 2024
    Childless Cat Ladies

    Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

    By Monica Cardenas  August 15, 2024
    Publishing

    Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

    By Maris Kreizman  August 15, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 15, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 15, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 15, 2024
    Road Trips

    A Literary Road Trip Across America

    By Literary Hub  August 14, 2024
    literary criticism

    “A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

    By Snowden Wright  August 14, 2024
    Creative Partnerships

    How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

    By Camille Peri  August 13, 2024
    Writing the Novel

    Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

    By Sarah Seltzer  August 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  August 9, 2024
    On Translation

    Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

    By Alex Zucker  August 9, 2024
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