• Literary Criticism

    The Hub

    10 pictures of young Chekhov, ranked by hotness.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 29, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books
    of the Month

    By Book Marks  January 29, 2021
    Workshop

    ‘But I Will Write Anyway.’ Teaching the Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

    By Helen Betya Rubinstein  January 28, 2021
    Lit Crit

    In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

    By Mark de Silva  January 27, 2021
    Rural America

    Growth, Loss, and a Mailbox Mystery: 13 Years in Gray’s River Valley

    By Robert Michael Pyle  January 27, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021

    By Reading Women  January 27, 2021
    Craft and Criticism

    Joan Didion: Why I Write

    By Joan Didion  January 26, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

    By Lit Century   January 26, 2021
    Politics

    What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

    By Soledad Fox Maura  January 25, 2021
    Literary Tradition

    Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

    By Eman Quotah  January 25, 2021
    Southern literature

    The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

    By Ed Tarkington  January 22, 2021
    Reading Habits

    Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

    By Matthew Redmond  January 22, 2021
    Interview with a Poet

    Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

    By Peter Mishler  January 22, 2021
    Technology

    Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

    By Michael Wooldridge  January 20, 2021
    Lit Century

    What Makes Flowers in the Attic the Perfect Quarantine Read?

    By Lit Century   January 20, 2021
    Literary History

    Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

    By Richard Bradford  January 19, 2021
    Memoir

    Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

    By Yiyun Li  January 15, 2021
    Reading Lists

    How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

    By Michael Leviton  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel… in Which Things Actually Get Better

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

    By History of Literature  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Revisiting the Brontës… Through Branwell’s Reputed Affair

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    Reading

    Will Self: How Should We Read?

    By Will Self  January 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

    By Melissa Albert  January 13, 2021
    World War II

    Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
    World War II

    By Richard Greene  January 13, 2021
    Thresholds

    Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

    By Thresholds   January 13, 2021
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