• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    5 Books You May Have Missed in January

    By Bethanne Patrick  February 19, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris

    By Megan Labrise  February 19, 2021
    American Icons

    Meet the Creators of the Toni Morrison Project

    By Rasheeda Saka  February 18, 2021
    On Home

    Writing About Housing Anxiety in the Contemporary Novel

    By Laura Maw  February 18, 2021
    War

    On One of the Great Unsung War Novels of the Last 30 Years

    By Daniel Elkind  February 18, 2021
    The Internet

    Patricia Lockwood: The Internet Dominates Our Lives, So Why Not Our Fiction?

    By Kristin Iversen  February 18, 2021
    Death

    When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

    By Nina Solis  February 18, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan

    By Lori Feathers  February 18, 2021
    Short Novels

    50 Great Classic Novels
    Under 200 Pages

    By Emily Temple  February 17, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza

    By Richard Z. Santos  February 17, 2021
    Robots

    Have Robots… Always Been With Us?

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  February 17, 2021
    History

    On the Our Town Spin-Off That Served as WWII Spirit Building

    By Howard Sherman  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    15 new books to hunker down with.

    By Katie Yee  February 16, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Teenage Angst of 20th-Century Literature

    By Lit Century   February 16, 2021
    Identity

    Struggling in Workshop with the Question of Cultural Appropriation

    By Paisley Rekdal  February 16, 2021
    New Books Network

    Does Regency-Era Opium Use Explain Anne de Bourgh of Pride and Prejudice?

    By New Books Network  February 16, 2021
    First Draft

    Te-Ping Chen: The Lived of Experience of China is More Brave New World Than 1984

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 16, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Lovability of Keats

    By History of Literature  February 16, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Is Crime Fiction Just Resting on Its Laurels at This Point?

    By Literary Disco  February 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

    By Book Marks  February 12, 2021
    Punk

    Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

    By Neil Gaiman  February 12, 2021
    Identity

    Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

    By Simon Han  February 12, 2021
    Love

    25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

    By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
    Lit Crit

    The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

    By Diana Rose Newby  February 12, 2021
    Memory

    Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
    From the Past

    By Maël Renouard  February 12, 2021
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