• Literary Criticism

    Poetry

    Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

    By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez  May 25, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

    By Lit Century   May 25, 2021
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to read on the beach this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 25, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 24, 2021
    Titles

    Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

    By Chris Drangle  May 24, 2021
    Capitalism

    The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

    By Arielle Zibrak  May 24, 2021
    Storytelling

    Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

    By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
    Science fiction

    Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

    By Sharmila Cohen  May 21, 2021
    Book Titles

    77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    By Edward Brooke-Hitching  May 21, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

    By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
    New Books Network

    What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

    By New Books Network  May 21, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    Classics

    How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

    By Phoebe Wynne  May 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

    By Keen On  May 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

    By Thresholds   May 19, 2021
    Misfits

    Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

    By Claire Fuller  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

    By Bridget Collins  May 19, 2021
    Reading Women

    T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

    By Reading Women  May 19, 2021
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 19, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Work in a Literary Magazine

    By Erica Jenks Henry  May 18, 2021
    Lit Century

    On Midcentury American Literature’s Preoccupation with Scandalous Sex

    By Lit Century   May 18, 2021
    Trans Rights

    The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

    By Isle McElroy  May 18, 2021
    new books tuesday

    Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.

    By Katie Yee  May 18, 2021
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