• Literary Criticism

    Refugees

    The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

    By John Domini  December 29, 2020
    The History of Literature

    How Chekhov Cuts to the Heart in Uncle Vanya

    By History of Literature  December 28, 2020
    Literary Disco

    On the Weird Little Essays That Inspired A Christmas Story

    By Literary Disco  December 28, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Lessons From Shakespeare: How to Survive a Pandemic with Humor

    By Allie Esiri  December 23, 2020
    Best of the Year

    Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2020

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2020
    Literary History

    How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market

    By Sarah Lonsdale  December 23, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Poet Moez Surani on the Language of War

    By How to Proceed   December 23, 2020
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    Rural America

    Nick Offerman on the Essential Wisdom of Wendell Berry

    By Gary Lovely  December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    What Elites Got Wrong About Mary McCarthy’s The Group

    By Apoorva Tadepalli  December 22, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 22, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Religion and Nonviolent Protest in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie

    By Lit Century   December 22, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Why Does Goodreads Have a Problem with Fiction by Women, About Women?

    By Ruth Madievsky  December 21, 2020
    Children's Literature

    What 2020 Children’s Book Roundups Are Missing

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 21, 2020
    Best of the Year

    The 10 Best Book Reviews
    of 2020

    By Adam Morgan  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem “little tree”

    By J. Alison Rosenblitt  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
    Chicano Poetry

    By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

    By History of Literature  December 21, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Graphic
    Literature of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    Rabih Alameddine’s Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 17, 2020
    Theater

    The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
    Illness

    Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness
    and Disability

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
    in Reading

    By H.M. Naqvi  December 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams’s Bromance Book Club

    By Reading Women  December 16, 2020
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