• Literary Criticism

    Classics

    How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

    By Erin Morgenstern  February 16, 2022
    Motherhood

    Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

    By Mary Kuryla  February 16, 2022
    Libraries

    American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

    By Ilan Stavans  February 16, 2022
    Harlem Renaissance

    On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

    By Morgan Jerkins  February 16, 2022
    The Hub

    15 new books to love this week.

    By Katie Yee  February 15, 2022
    Cooking

    “We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

    By Kim Fay  February 15, 2022
    Murder

    On the Feminine Urge to Murder

    By Heather O'Neill  February 15, 2022
    Craft and Criticism

    The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

    By Book Marks  February 15, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Qualities of Magic: On Books You’ll Keep Coming Back To

    By Dr. Kate Gale  February 15, 2022
    What to Watch

    In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

    By Michelle Nijhuis  February 14, 2022
    Queer History

    Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

    By Grace Lavery  February 14, 2022
    On Love

    The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

    By Kathryn Schulz  February 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 14, 2022
    Adoption

    “The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

    By Lyn Liao Butler  February 14, 2022
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Loneliness in the Writing Life

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2022
    Underreported

    Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 11, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

    By Keen On  February 11, 2022
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have Missed in January

    By Bethanne Patrick  February 11, 2022
    Science fiction

    When Plants Attack! Benjamin Percy on the Terror of Green Things

    By Benjamin Percy  February 10, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    “How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 10, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 10, 2022
    Skateboarding

    How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  February 9, 2022
    Underreported

    Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 9, 2022
    Climate Change

    Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

    By Martin Puchner  February 9, 2022
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