• Literary Criticism

    Life in a Pandemic

    Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

    By Kate Washington  April 21, 2021
    Cats

    The Excruciating Decision to
    End a Cat’s Life

    By Martha Cooley  April 21, 2021
    Poetry

    On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

    By Khalisa Rae  April 21, 2021
    The Hub

    13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.

    By Katie Yee  April 20, 2021
    Classic Novels

    This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

    By Drew Johnson  April 20, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

    By Lit Century   April 20, 2021
    News and Culture

    Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

    By Ada Limón  April 19, 2021
    Ukrainian Literature

    Love Ukraine as You Would the Sun: 10 Ukrainian Books Worth Reading in English

    By Kate Tsurkan  April 19, 2021
    Reading Lists

    In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

    By KT Sparks  April 19, 2021
    Poets

    How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

    By Mark Edmundson  April 16, 2021
    Queer Literature

    How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

    By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  April 16, 2021
    Editors

    The Challenge of Editing a
    Beat Legend

    By Garrett Caples  April 16, 2021
    Translation

    On Translating the Musicality of Sentences From One Language to Another

    By Julia Sanches  April 16, 2021
    Experimental Fiction

    6 Latin American Novels That Changed How We Think
    of Fiction

    By Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones  April 15, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    On the Watery Language of Finnegans Wake

    By The Cosmic Library   April 15, 2021
    NewberyTart

    How Ashley Bryan’s 40-Year Secret Inspired the Category-Defying Infinite Hope

    By NewberyTart   April 15, 2021
    Nature Writing

    On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

    By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  April 14, 2021
    Classic Novels

    Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children,
    Forty Years Later

    By Salman Rushdie  April 14, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

    By Jonathan Lethem  April 14, 2021
    Short Stories

    Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

    By Rasheeda Saka  April 14, 2021
    Documentaries

    Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

    By Alex Thomas  April 14, 2021
    Dating

    On the Absolute Chaos of Modern Dating: A Reading List

    By Katherine Heiny  April 14, 2021
    Lit Century

    On Domestic Labor and Freedom in Excellent Women

    By Lit Century   April 13, 2021
    The Hub

    17 new books to find at your local library.

    By Katie Yee  April 13, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Five Ways to Read Henry James

    By History of Literature  April 12, 2021
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