• Literary Criticism

    #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
    TV

    Ted Lasso Sure Loves Books, Doesn’t He?

    By Alex Thomas  November 22, 2021
    Conspiracies

    What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK

    By Jefferson Morley  November 22, 2021
    Latin American Literature

    The Life and Times of Iconic Cuban Novelist José Lezama Lima

    By Gabriel Pasquini  November 22, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Farah Jasmine Griffin on the Lessons and Legacies of Black Literature

    By History of Literature  November 22, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Two By Two: A Reading List of Books That Belong Together

    By Ian Williams  November 22, 2021
    Reproductive Rights

    Authors Are Failing to Tell the Real Stories of West Virginia Women

    By Sarah Mullens  November 22, 2021
    First Draft

    “Living in America Is Like Living in an In-Law’s House.” Nawaaz Ahmed on Writing a Queer, Immigrant Story

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 22, 2021
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Tom Zoellner on Gatsby, Judy Blume, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

    By Book Marks  November 22, 2021
    Film

    A Fan’s Notes: The Kurt Vonnegut Documentary 40 Years in the Making

    By Jonny Diamond  November 19, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 19, 2021
    Classics

    Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

    By Roosevelt Montás  November 19, 2021
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