• Literary Criticism

    Theater

    Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

    By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
    Close Reading

    Why is The Known World
    So Good?

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2020
    Lit Crit

    The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

    By Elizabeth Poliner  October 5, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On the Haunting Remorse of Edgar Allan Poe’s
    “The Black Cat”

    By History of Literature  October 5, 2020
    Criticism

    A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

    By Jamieson Webster  October 2, 2020
    On Memoir

    The Case for Writing a Memoir in Essays

    By Beth Kephart  October 2, 2020
    Material History

    What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

    By James Raven  October 1, 2020
    Great Authors

    On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds

    By Gregory Ariail  October 1, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

    By NewberyTart   October 1, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 30, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Prepare Your Brackets:
    The All-Time Super Rooster Tournament of Books is Here

    By So Many Damn Books  September 29, 2020
    Literary Disco

    On Watership Down, Another Attempt to Stop Humans from Ruining the Planet

    By Literary Disco  September 29, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

    By Brian Dillon  September 28, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
    Mathematics

    How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)

    By Dan Rockmore  September 28, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on the Greatest Writers in Scottish History

    By History of Literature  September 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

    By Book Marks  September 25, 2020
    Ghosts!

    How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human

    By Amy Shearn  September 25, 2020
    Essential Books

    33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

    By Niloufar Talebi  September 25, 2020
    Criticism

    A Brief (But Not Too) History of
    Literary Constipation

    By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
    2020 Election

    Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat

    By Anjali Enjeti  September 24, 2020
    How to Read

    What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

    By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
    Poets

    Lucille Clifton Didn’t Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

    By Tracie Morris  September 21, 2020
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