• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    Sex, Feminism, and the Lost Genius of Violette Leduc

    By Tom Roberge  July 17, 2015
    Excerpts

    Ta-Nehisi Coates: Of Plunder and the Killing Fields

    By Ta-Nehisi Coates  July 16, 2015
    Close Reading

    Chekhov: A Writer for Grown Ups

    By Richard Ford  July 15, 2015
    Criticism

    Will ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Spoil ‘Mockingbird’?

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 14, 2015
    Criticism

    On Our Fascination with Twins

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 14, 2015
    Excerpts

    The Top-Secret Cinema of Manuel Puig

    By Javier Montes  July 13, 2015
    Essay

    Nikola Tesla, An Alien Intelligence

    By Samantha Hunt  July 9, 2015
    Essay

    Desire Lines: From Slave Ships to the 9th Ward

    By Brenda Quant  July 8, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Ben Okri: Beyond Myth and Magic

    By Porochista Khakpour  July 7, 2015
    Essay

    “Call Me Ishmael”: At the Nantucket Book Festival

    By Michele Filgate  July 7, 2015
    What to Read

    Quintessential American Fiction, According to the Rest of the World

    By Literary Hub  July 3, 2015
    Close Reading

    On the Surreal Genius of Kelly Link

    By Laura I. Miller  July 2, 2015
    Excerpts

    Toward a Desegregated Literature

    By Calvin Baker  July 1, 2015
    Essay

    Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

    By Joshua Cohen  June 30, 2015
    Essay

    The Book That Changed My Life

    By Malcolm Brooks  June 19, 2015
    Criticism

    Genre Wars, Amazon, and the Market for Heart

    By M. C. Mah  June 16, 2015
    Craft and Criticism

    The Life of the Doctor as Writer

    By Ray Barfield  June 12, 2015
    What to Read

    Island Life: A Hawaiian Reading List

    By Amy Hundley  June 11, 2015
    Conversation

    Traveling Deep Below the Surface of the Book

    By Literary Hub  June 11, 2015
    Novelists

    Saul Bellow’s Nobel Lecture from 1976

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Irvine Welsh Comes to America

    By Charles Arrowsmith  June 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Saul Bellow: Of Crackpots and Conmen

    By Benjamin Markovits  June 10, 2015
    Conversation

    Jim Shepard: in the Shadows of the Holocaust

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 9, 2015
    Criticism

    Nabokov in America

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 9, 2015
    Criticism

    The True Fictions of Joan Didion

    By Nathan Deuel  June 8, 2015
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