• Literary Criticism

    Ghosts!

    How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human

    By Amy Shearn  September 25, 2020
    Essential Books

    33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

    By Niloufar Talebi  September 25, 2020
    Criticism

    A Brief (But Not Too) History of
    Literary Constipation

    By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
    2020 Election

    Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat

    By Anjali Enjeti  September 24, 2020
    How to Read

    What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

    By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
    Poets

    Lucille Clifton Didn’t Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

    By Tracie Morris  September 21, 2020
    Poetry

    The Poet Who Had No Time
    for Tragedy

    By Dan Beachy-Quick  September 21, 2020
    Criticism

    The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

    By Kerry Greenwood  September 21, 2020
    In Translation

    In Vigdis Hjorth’s Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

    By Charlotte Barslund  September 21, 2020
    On Craft

    Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

    By Lincoln Michel  September 17, 2020
    Science fiction

    How a 1960s Sci-Fi Fable Expanded the Meaning of Cuban Pilgrimages

    By Yoss   September 17, 2020
    NewberyTart

    The Importance of Taking Girls’ Emotions Seriously in Literature

    By NewberyTart   September 17, 2020
    In Memoriam

    The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

    By Alane Salierno Mason  September 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Two Anthologies That Center Race and Disability

    By Reading Women  September 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2020
    Literary Disco

    Literary Disco Discusses Jericho Brown’s The Tradition

    By Literary Disco  September 15, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The Most Savage Book Reviews of All Time

    By History of Literature  September 14, 2020
    Latin American Literature

    Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make One Hundred Years of Solitude the Success It Is Today?

    By Álvaro Santana-Acuña  September 11, 2020
    On Love

    Why I Walked Away From War and Peace… Forever

    By John Maher  September 11, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Daniel Mendelsohn on How Greek Tragedy Speaks to Our Present Moment

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 11, 2020
    Classical Music

    Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

    By Olivia Giovetti  September 10, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have
    Missed in August

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 10, 2020
    Biography

    Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

    By Sherrill Grace  September 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, read by Ethan Herisse

    By Behind the Mic   September 10, 2020
    What to Read Next

    11 Great Books You Probably Haven’t Read (But Should)

    By Emily Temple  September 9, 2020
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