Why George Orwell’s <em>Homage to Catalonia</em> is necessary reading for the 21st century.

Why George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is necessary reading for the 21st century.

By Jonny Diamond | April 26, 2021

How Djuna Barnes Joined the Lost Generation

How Djuna Barnes Joined the Lost Generation

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 26, 2021

On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

Tom Whyman Recommends CLR James, Theodor Adorno, and More

By Tom Whyman | April 26, 2021

20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

In Honor of the Hard Pants We Will Soon Wear Once More

By Emily Temple | April 23, 2021

Bad Girl Debutantes, Rebellious Nuns, and a Pregnant Moose: 5 Books You May Have Missed in March

Bad Girl Debutantes, Rebellious Nuns, and a Pregnant Moose: 5 Books You May Have Missed in March

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Pamela Hamilton, Marj Charlier, and More

By Bethanne Patrick | April 23, 2021

10 Women Poets Who Inspired Me To Become a Writer

10 Women Poets Who Inspired Me To Become a Writer

Aija Mayrock Names Hannah Szenes, Lucille Clifton, Qiu Jin, and More

By Aija Mayrock | April 23, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Will Our Next Wave of Fiction Be Escapist, or Corrective?

By Literary Disco | April 23, 2021

Why Should You Read?

By Will Self | April 22, 2021

Katherine O’Callaghan on the Irish Contexts for Mythical Figure Finn MacCool

By The Cosmic Library | April 22, 2021

Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s <em>Tragic Magic</em>

Walkin’ While Dead: On Black Horror and Wesley Brown’s Tragic Magic

Erica Vital-Lazare Reads the Present in a Novel of the Past

By Erica Vital-Lazare | April 21, 2021

Rereading <em>The Phantom Tollbooth</em> in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

Kate Washington on Norton Juster’s Classic

By Kate Washington | April 21, 2021

The Excruciating Decision to<br> End a Cat’s Life

The Excruciating Decision to
End a Cat’s Life

Martha Cooley on Bohumil Hrabal, Stevie Smith, and the
Death of Her Cat Zora

By Martha Cooley | April 21, 2021

On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet

Khalisa Rae Considers What It Means to Write in the “Southern Tradition”

By Khalisa Rae | April 21, 2021

13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.

13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.

By Katie Yee | April 20, 2021

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

Drew Johnson in Praise of a “Disorderly, Conflicted, Brilliant Clod”

By Drew Johnson | April 20, 2021

On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in <em>The Chaneysville Incident</em>

On the Hazy Line Between Fact and Legend in The Chaneysville Incident

Matthew Hunte Guests on the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | April 20, 2021

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