• Literary Criticism

    So Many Damn Books

    Julie Shapiro and Claire Boyle on Reversing Roles for the 64th Issue of McSweeney’s

    By So Many Damn Books  September 14, 2021
    On Reading

    The Books That Give Us Chills: On Reading Emotionally

    By Veronica Esposito  September 13, 2021
    Queer Identity

    If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

    By Jennifer Finney Boylan  September 13, 2021
    Criticism

    In Celebration of Laurie Colwin’s Lost Manhattan

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 13, 2021
    Classics

    Seeking a More Tranquil Mind? Take Horace’s Advice

    By Alan Jacobs  September 13, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Mike Palindrome Chooses the Top 10 Literary Centuries

    By History of Literature  September 13, 2021
    War

    “I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

    By Samuel Moyn  September 10, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Maggie Nelson on Criticism, Intentionality, and Pain

    By The Maris Review  September 9, 2021
    Reading Lists

    7 Novels For Living Out Your Cottagecore Fantasies

    By Lillie Vale  September 9, 2021
    Wilderness

    Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

    By Annabel Abbs  September 9, 2021
    Residencies

    Writing Black Essays in White People’s Houses

    By Jill Louise Busby  September 9, 2021
    Women Writers

    Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

    By Margaret Atwood  September 8, 2021
    In Conversation

    Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

    By Rebecca Makkai  September 8, 2021
    Thresholds

    Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

    By Thresholds   September 8, 2021
    Shakespeare

    Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting The Merchant of Venice with My 10-Year-Old Son

    By Dara Horn  September 8, 2021
    African Literature

    The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

    By Vanessa Guignery  September 8, 2021
    Reading Women

    Crystal Wilkinson on Finding Community Among Affrilachian Poets

    By Reading Women  September 8, 2021
    Big Table

    Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

    By Big Table  September 7, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Hilma Wolitzer on the Catharsis of Writing Through Grief

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 7, 2021
    Women's Stories

    Making a Way Out of No Way: Celebrating the Power of Black Female Relationships in Literature

    By Dawn Turner  September 7, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Biblioasis

    By Corinne Segal  September 3, 2021
    Overlooked Women

    On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

    By Joy Castro  September 2, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2021
    Memory

    What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

    By Meredith Westgate  September 1, 2021
    new books tuesday

    13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

    By Katie Yee  August 31, 2021
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