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How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

Lizzie Buehler on Incorporating Techniques From Literary Translation Into Her Writing Practice

By Lizzie Buehler | July 28, 2026

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of </br><em>The Fellowship of the Ring</em>.

W. H. Auden's 1954 review of
The Fellowship of the Ring.

"No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy"

By Book Marks | July 28, 2026

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | July 28, 2026

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System

D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelmann Discuss Class, Access and Getting Through the Door

By D/Annie Liontas | July 27, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>

This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly

”It stag­gered me to think that perhaps I had always missed what made poetry poetry.”

By Literary Hub | July 27, 2026

Why Black Americans Need <br>Reparations Now

Why Black Americans Need
Reparations Now

“The true fight is for self-determination and restitution; anything less is unacceptable.”

By Edna Bonhomme | July 27, 2026

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Michael Cunningham on the Question of Scale in Writing

By Michael Cunningham | July 24, 2026

How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media

How the Role of Book Cover Design Has Changed in the Age of Social Media

Or, Judging a Reader by Their Book Cover

By Madelyn Johnson | July 24, 2026

Christ’s Craft Store, Hobby Lobby, Wouldn’t Have Survived Its First Year Without the Godless Hippies

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Michael Blanding on the Origins of a Box Store Behemoth

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On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s <em>No Name</em>

On the Duplicitous Heroine in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Is Magdalen Vanstone a Detective Using Her Acting Skills or, by Victorian Standards,... a Criminal?

By Olivia Rutigliano | July 24, 2026

On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity

On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity

Sander L. Gilman Considers the Tension Between Rootedness and Rootlessness

By Sander L. Gilman | July 24, 2026

“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman

“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman

From the Collection The Dance

By Christian Wiman | July 24, 2026

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics

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Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

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“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”

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