Actually, It’s Ok to Steal Your Ideas. Sort Of... (Or: Learning to Love My Literary Influences)

Actually, It’s Ok to Steal Your Ideas. Sort Of... (Or: Learning to Love My Literary Influences)

Bryan VanDyke Ponders Inspiration Versus Plagiarism, Ursula Le Guin, and AI Hallucinations

By Bryan VanDyke | May 19, 2025

"Don Quixote," Proto-Feminist Text: How Cervantes' Daughter Shaped His Novel

Martha Bátiz on Telenovelas, Writing Isabel de Saavedra's Story, and Women in the "Quixote"

By Martha Bátiz | May 19, 2025

One great short story to read today: Alistair MacLeod, “To Everything There Is a Season”

One great short story to read today: Alistair MacLeod, “To Everything There Is a Season”

By Jonny Diamond | May 16, 2025

Jane Austen’s Legacy Lives on in Rom-Coms

Jane Austen’s Legacy Lives on in Rom-Coms

Hannah Benson on “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” the Newest Edition to the Austen Expanded Universe

By Hannah Benson | May 16, 2025

L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: <em>The Wizard of Oz</em> at 125 Years

L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

Ed Simon on Grifters, the Chicago World Fair, and Oz as Symbol of a Modern USA

By Ed Simon | May 16, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Mark Twain, Ocean Vuong, Malcolm X, and More

By Book Marks | May 16, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | May 15, 2025

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | May 15, 2025

Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

By Monica Macansantos | May 15, 2025

Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 15, 2025

Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

By Literary Hub | May 14, 2025

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of Mrs. Dalloway

Marisa Charpentier Considers the Multitudes Contained in a Single Day in June

By Marisa Charpentier | May 14, 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em> to High Schoolers in 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

Mia Manzulli Considers Clarissa in the Age of AI and Fractured Attention

By Mia Manzulli | May 14, 2025

Drafting <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

“There should be some fun–”

By Mark Hussey | May 14, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Reflection and Refraction

The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

The Final Episode of the Dostoevsky Season

By The Cosmic Library | May 14, 2025

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

By Lincoln Michel | May 13, 2025

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