• Literary Criticism

    Aliens?

    “But Where’s Its Anus?” On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms

    By Jaime Green  April 18, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Margo Jefferson on the Roots of Criticism

    By Talk Easy  April 18, 2023
    Southern literature

    Katy Simpson Smith on Writing a Southern Woman Louder Than Herself

    By Katy Simpson Smith  April 18, 2023
    Feminism

    Girls to the Front: A Reading List of Provocative Feminist History

    By Vanessa Wilkie  April 18, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Ramona Ausubel on the Complexity of Families Both Human and Non-

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 18, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Irina Mashinski: Growing up in the Soviet Union to Becoming an American Poet

    By History of Literature  April 18, 2023
    Keen On

    Jarrett J. Krosoczka Explains How Art Can Enable Kids to Escape Their Unfortunate Circumstances

    By Keen On  April 18, 2023
    Write-minded

    On Pioneering New Literary Spaces and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Romance Novelist Donna Hill

    By Write-minded   April 18, 2023
    What to Watch

    In Judy Blume Forever, Blume’s Refreshing Candor Applies to Herself

    By Kavita Das  April 17, 2023
    Literary Biography

    What Hemingway Means in the 21st Century

    By David Barnes  April 17, 2023
    African Literature

    Contexts and Experiences of the African Diaspora: A Reading List

    By Toyin Falola  April 17, 2023
    Australian Literature

    How Spiritualism Influenced a Divisive But Brilliant Australian Novelist

    By Cameron Hurst  April 17, 2023
    Interview with a Poet

    Gabrielle Octavia Rucker on the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry

    By Peter Mishler  April 17, 2023
    The Writing Life

    The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

    By Blair Hurley  April 17, 2023
    What to Watch

    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is an Uncanny, Stirring Film and a Worthy Tribute to Haruki Murakami

    By Olivia Rutigliano  April 14, 2023
    Transphobia

    Why the Culture of the So-Called Great Books is Hostile to Trans People

    By Naomi Kanakia  April 14, 2023
    On Poetry

    Pattiann Rogers on the Scientific Underpinnings of Poetry

    By Pattiann Rogers  April 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  April 14, 2023
    Short Story Writing

    On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

    By Daphne Kalotay  April 13, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

    By Sophie MacKintosh  April 13, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Alex Mar on the Story of Radical Forgiveness Behind Her New Book

    By The Maris Review  April 13, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 13, 2023
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

    By Emily Franklin  April 13, 2023
    Otherppl

    Jinwoo Chong on Taking Three Years to Outline His Novel (and Four Months to Draft It)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 13, 2023
    Film and TV

    22 (More) Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

    By Literary Hub  April 12, 2023
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