• Literary Criticism

    The Hub

    One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

     
    By Jonny Diamond  May 9, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

    By Tramaine Suubi  May 9, 2025
    Art Monsters

    Locked in Rapunzel’s Tower: Reflections on the Art Monster and Women’s Loneliness

    By Amie Souza Reilly  May 9, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 8, 2025
    World War II

    From the French Resistance to the Horrors of Hiroshima: Eight Globe-Spanning Books on World War II

    By Natasha Lester  May 8, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Jennifer Hope Choi Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 8, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 8, 2025
    literary criticism

    Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

    By Philip Hoare  May 7, 2025
    Writing Communities

    Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

    By Rosa Castellano  May 7, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    Featuring Daniel Kehlmann, Amanda Hess, Florence Knapp, and More

    By Book Marks  May 9, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Sasha Weiss on Mischief in the Pages

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 6, 2025
    Jane Austen

    The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

    By Natalie Jenner  May 6, 2025
    craft advice

    I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

    By Kevin Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Andy Warhol! James Joyce! Josephine Baker! 27 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?

    By Drew Broussard  May 5, 2025
    Anniversaries

    Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

    By Kazuo Ishiguro  May 5, 2025
    Female Friendship

    More Than a Subplot: Five Novels That Explore and Center Female Friendship

    By Disha Bose  May 5, 2025
    Childhood

    How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

    Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

    By Peter Conrad  May 5, 2025
    On Poetry

    After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile

    By Oliver Baez Bendorf  May 5, 2025
    literary criticism

    Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

    By Astrid López Méndez  May 5, 2025
    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    Children's Literature

    Universe-Expanding Children’s Books Coming Out in May

    Caroline Carlson Recommends Ten New Books For Young Readers

    By Caroline Carlson  May 2, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Horse Girls, Ghostly Aftertastes, and Alien Plants: May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  May 2, 2025
    New Poetry

    Glass Houses, Hells, and Phantom Limbs: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in May

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  May 2, 2025
    The Cosmic Library

    The Cosmic Library on Dreams and Math in Dostoevsky

    By The Cosmic Library   May 7, 2025
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