• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 21, 2023
    Time Travel

    Time Travel Stories That Explore What It Means To Be Human

    By Holly Smale  July 21, 2023
    The Middle East

    Five Books That Show What Life Is Really Like In the Middle East

    By Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor  July 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    Time Out of Mind: On the Ahistorical Cinematic Adaptation

    By Tobias Carroll  July 21, 2023
    Black Women's Writing

    Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

    By Mikki Kendall  July 20, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Sarah Rose Etter on Tech Companies, NDAs, and the Precarity of a Job

    By The Maris Review  July 20, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jaswinder Bolina on How the End of Affirmative Action Will Affect Writing Program Admissions

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 20, 2023
    Writing Advice

    You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

    By Jennifer Grotz  July 20, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    What We’re Reading at Just the Right Book This Week

    By Just the Right Book   July 20, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Essie Fox Reads From The Fascination

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  July 19, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 18, 2023
    Writing About Disability

    Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

    By Andrew Leland  July 18, 2023
    Exile

    How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

    By Alfred J. Naddaff  July 18, 2023
    Poets

    Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

    By Patrick Gale  July 18, 2023
    On Writing

    In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

    By Stephanie Bishop  July 18, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 18, 2023
    Children's Literature

    Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books

    By Janet Manley  July 17, 2023
    Literary History

    The Complicated Afterlives of
    Roberto Bolaño

    By Aaron Shulman  July 17, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Shin Yu Pai on Ten Thousand Things and the Asian-American Experience

    By History of Literature  July 17, 2023
    On Teaching

    On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

    By Steve Edwards  July 14, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 14, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

    By Megan Fernandes  July 14, 2023
    On Craft

    Many Voices, Many Truths: On the Benefits of Polyvocal Stories

    By Hannah Michell  July 14, 2023
    The Uncanny

    Uncanny Valleys: Eight Books That Map Worlds Not Quite Like Ours

    By Daniel Hornsby  July 13, 2023
    Desire

    Ten Books That Slouch Toward the Total Pain of Desire

    By Johanna Hedva  July 13, 2023
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