• Literary Criticism

    New Books Network

    Hiron Ennes on Their Gothic Science Fiction Novel, Leech

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  December 1, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: Looking for Closure After a “Situationship”

    By Dorothea   December 1, 2022
    Thresholds

    Alyssa Songsiridej on Reaching the Limits of a Self… and a Neighborhood

    By Thresholds   December 1, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    With the Ancestors: Buki Papillon on African Folklore and Wakanda Forever

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 1, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    The Best Audiobooks of 2022, According to Audiofile

    By Behind the Mic   December 1, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Vaishnavi Patel on the Surprising Evidence of Feminism in the Ramayana

    By Book Dreams  December 1, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Fight Racism? We Need More Books and Conversations About Whiteness

    By Keen On  December 1, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are November’s Best Reviewed Books

    By Book Marks  November 30, 2022
    Literary History

    Amusing, Disturbing, Delightful: Celebrating Jean Stafford

    By Mary Gordon  November 30, 2022
    What to Watch

    In Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a Controversial Classic Becomes a Glossy Love Story

    By Meg Walters  November 30, 2022
    Craft and Criticism

    On the Similarities Between Writing and Turning Oneself Into a Werewolf

    By Douglas Kearney  November 30, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of November

    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2022
    Otherppl

    Emily Pifer: Finding Truth (and Lying to Herself) While Editing Her Debut Memoir

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 30, 2022
    Reading List

    The 23 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2022

    By Emily Temple  November 29, 2022
    Keen On

    When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

    By Keen On  November 29, 2022
    Narrative

    How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

    By Mary-Alice Daniel  November 29, 2022
    The West

    Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

    By Kay Chronister  November 29, 2022
    Inspiration

    Always on the Clock: On the Writerly Need to Find Ideas in Unexpected Places

    By Ethan Joella  November 29, 2022
    Write-minded

    Angie Cruz on Unexpected Creative Intersections and Influences

    By Write-minded   November 29, 2022
    The Literary Journal Archives

    Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 29, 2022
    new books tuesday

    8 new books for your reading pleasure.

    By Katie Yee  November 29, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    “It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching Three’s Company and Writing Her Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  November 29, 2022
    #MeToo

    On Women Talking and the Unreliable Narrators of Post-MeToo Literature

    By Emma Staffaroni  November 28, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Live from Writers for Readers in Kansas City: Alexander Chee on Editing Best American Essays 2022

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 23, 2022
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