• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

    By Keenan Norris  June 22, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Unmoored in a City of Ruins: On the Revelatory Power of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

    By Joss Lake  June 22, 2021
    Greek Mythology

    Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

    By Claire Heywood  June 22, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 new books to buy from your local indie (instead of you know where).

    By Katie Yee  June 22, 2021
    The History of Literature

    The Top 10 Things to Love About Hamlet

    By History of Literature  June 21, 2021
    Big Table

    Unpacking the Enigma of George Orwell

    By Big Table  June 21, 2021
    The Writing Life

    John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 18, 2021
    The Common

    Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

    By The Common  June 18, 2021
    Education

    On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

    By Brandon P. Fleming  June 18, 2021
    The Internet

    What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

    By Shya Scanlon  June 17, 2021
    Feminism

    Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

    By Veronica Esposito  June 17, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 17, 2021
    Letters

    Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

    By Janet Somerville  June 16, 2021
    Short story writers

    Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel… Even a Novel?

    By Benjamin Hedin  June 16, 2021
    Self-Publishing

    When You’re Always Going to Be the Second-Most Famous Writer in Your Marriage

    By Neal Allen  June 16, 2021
    Reading Women

    In Praise of Aging Protagonists in Literature

    By Reading Women  June 16, 2021
    Interview

    Joshua Henkin on Eschewing Big Reveals and Knowing Your Characters’ Birthdays

    By Ellen Adams  June 16, 2021
    NewberyTart

    How Shiloh Illuminates the Right Thing… and the
    “Righter” Thing

    By NewberyTart   June 16, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 new books for your midsummer reading.

    By Katie Yee  June 15, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City… Only to Disappear Into It

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 15, 2021
    Lit Century

    Grappling with Yukio Mishima’s Murderous Children

    By Lit Century   June 15, 2021
    Memoir

    “Camp is a Sensibility.” On Susan Sontag, Extravagance, and Sexuality

    By Amelia Abraham  June 15, 2021
    Genre

    The Perks of Reading Across Genre as Both Bookseller and Writer

    By Marissa Levien  June 15, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Jews in Space: On the Unsung History of Jewish Writers and the Birth of Science Fiction

    By Lavie Tidhar  June 14, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Rivka Galchen Talks Writer’s Block and Her Pandemic Cat

    By Literary Hub  June 14, 2021
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