• Literary Criticism

    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 16, 2020
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

    By Elizabeth Connor  December 15, 2020
    Book Covers

    On the Glory Days of the Great
    American Trade Paperback

    By Gerald Howard  December 15, 2020
    Ghosts!

    The Restless Ghost Stories
    of M. R. James

    By Adam Scovell  December 15, 2020
    French Classics

    Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time?

    By Saul Friedländer  December 15, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Sylvia Plath’s Use of Tastelessness in Ariel

    By Lit Century   December 15, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Fiction
    of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 15, 2020
    Autofiction

    Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

    By Marion Winik  December 14, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime Fiction of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 14, 2020
    Comics

    Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for
    Comic Book Artists

    By Robert K. Elder  December 14, 2020
    Oral Histories

    What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

    By Mauro Javier Cárdenas  December 14, 2020
    The History of Literature

    To Read or Not to Read Proust’s Swann’s Way

    By History of Literature  December 14, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Poetry
    Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 11, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Top 10 Most Totally Metal
    Books of 2020

    By Keaton Patterson  December 11, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in Agaat

    By Mary Gaitskill  December 11, 2020
    Literary Disco

    Will All Crime Novels Soon Be Historical Fiction?

    By Literary Disco  December 11, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Clarice Lispector’s Son on the Personal Politics of His Mother

    By Paulo Gurgel Valente  December 10, 2020
    Best of the Year

    The 10 Best Literary Adaptations of the Year

    By Emily Temple  December 10, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    When a Great Songwriter Turns Poet: On Richard Buckner’s New Collection

    By Nina MacLaughlin  December 10, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 9, 2020
    Literary Tourism

    On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer’s House

    By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  December 8, 2020
    Dating

    Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

    By Mikka Jacobsen  December 8, 2020
    On Race

    Real Talk: On Claudia Rankine’s Painful Conversations with Whiteness

    By Shya Scanlon  December 8, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Catholicism and Doomscrolling in Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter

    By Lit Century   December 8, 2020
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