• Literary Criticism

    Historical Fiction

    The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Fictionalizing the Life of a Great Artist

    By Lorenza Pieri  June 3, 2021
    Poets

    On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

    By Natasha Trethewey  June 3, 2021
    Summer reading

    10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  June 3, 2021
    The Hub

    A close reading of Margaret Atwood’s sexy cicada poem.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 2, 2021
    Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

    By Literary Hub  June 2, 2021
    Documentaries

    On Tim O’Brien’s Relationship to Writing and Fatherhood

    By Teresa Fazio  June 2, 2021
    Reading Lists

    At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List

    By Daisy Hernández  June 2, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Peter Scott-Morgan in Conversation with Stephen Fry at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 2, 2021
    Reading Women

    The Golden Girls of Literature: Reading Women Recommends Books by and About Older Women

    By Reading Women  June 2, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Richard Flanagan: What the Writer Needs is a Mad Courage

    By Cherilyn Parsons  June 1, 2021
    Writers in Conversation

    Rachel Kushner and Francisco Goldman on Autofiction, Identity, and the Novel

    By Rachel Kushner  June 1, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

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

    By Emily Temple  June 1, 2021
    Lit Century

    Can We Discuss Jenny Holzer’s “Truisms” as Literature?

    By Lit Century   June 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Fascism, Exile, and Tragedy Shaped Natalia Ginzburg’s Career

    By History of Literature  June 1, 2021
    Summer reading

    75 Nonfiction Books You Should
    Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2021
    Literary History

    Café Life and Literati: Life in Turn-of-the-Century Prague

    By Chad Bryant  May 28, 2021
    Kimpton Book Club

    Women Write Now: Imbolo Mbue, Patricia Lockwood, and Anna Wiener

    By Literary Hub  May 28, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Catherine Menon and Colm Tóibín at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 28, 2021
    Rural America

    Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

    By Gigi Georges  May 27, 2021
    Science fiction

    Bo-Young Kim on Finding Unlikely Sci-Fi Influences

    By Bo-Young Kim  May 27, 2021
    Iraqi Poetry

    How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

    By Mona Kareem  May 27, 2021
    Politics

    How Would the Sisters of Little Women Experience the World Today?

    By Virginia Kantra  May 26, 2021
    Family Stories

    Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

    By B. Pietras  May 26, 2021
    News and Culture

    Judy Grahn on Erotic Power, Queerness, and the Goddess Inanna

    By Corinne Segal  May 26, 2021
    Summer reading

    38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2021
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