• Literary Criticism

    Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

    From the Trenches: New Work by Ukrainian Poet and Soldier Artur Dron 

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2024
    Climate Change

    Dangerous Solastalgia: On Writing in the Midst of Climate Grief

    By Ashley Shelby  July 29, 2024
    Literary Colonialism

    The New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature

    By Ainehi Edoro-Glines  July 26, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 26, 2024
    craft advice

    Chaos Is My Co-Pilot: In Praise of Tumultuous, Unruly Storytelling

    By Jen Fawkes  July 26, 2024
    The Olympics

    What Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine Reveals About Athletes, Ancient and Modern

    By Justin Muchnick  July 26, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 25, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I’m Jealous of My Friend’s Writing Success: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 25, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Vendettas, Gatekeepers, and Prima Donnas: (Very) Bad Mentors in Fiction

    By Jean Marc Ah-Sen  July 25, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Harry Siegel on the Supreme Court, Bribery, and Scofflaws

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 25, 2024
    Travel fiction

    Vacation Mode: On the Literary Relationship Between Travel and Madness

    By Kate Preziosi  July 24, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Jen Hadfield on Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 24, 2024
    In Conversation

    Lev Grossman on Adapting Arthurian Legends For a World in Turmoil

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 23, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Keanu Reeves and China Mieville co-wrote a novel! Noam Chomsky! 19 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 23, 2024
    Sci-Fi

    On the Simple Prophecy of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

    By Roz Dineen  July 22, 2024
    Seeing Yourself

    The Hard Art of Seeing Your Own Writing Through Rose-Colored Glasses

    By Mira Ptacin  July 22, 2024
    On Teaching

    A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

    By Nate Powell  July 22, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  July 19, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Anna DeForest on Writing Without Artifice

    By Anna DeForest  July 19, 2024
    Presidential Campaign 2024

    JD Vance is the Toxic Byproduct of America’s Obsession with Bootstrap Narratives

    By Alissa Quart  July 18, 2024
    Book Criticism

    On the Making of That New York Times Best Books of the Century List

    By Maris Kreizman  July 18, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 18, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Eugene Lim Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  July 18, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Sally Franson and Emily Nussbaum on Reality TV

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 18, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Politics and Grace in Early Modern Literature

    By History of Literature  July 18, 2024
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