What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

What Can Fiction Do That Oral Histories Cannot?

Mauro Javier Cárdenas on Transcribing Life Into His Novel, Aphasia

By Mauro Javier Cárdenas | December 14, 2020

To Read or Not to Read Proust's <em>Swann's Way</em>

To Read or Not to Read Proust's Swann's Way

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | December 14, 2020

The Best Reviewed Poetry <br>Collections of 2020

The Best Reviewed Poetry
Collections of 2020

Featuring Natalie Diaz, Danez Smith, Jorie Graham, Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, and more

By Book Marks | December 11, 2020

The Top 10 Most Totally Metal<br> Books of 2020

The Top 10 Most Totally Metal
Books of 2020

Bookseller Extraordinaire Keaton Patterson Pairs Great Books
With Serious Music

By Keaton Patterson | December 11, 2020

Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in <em>Agaat</em>

Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in Agaat

A Novel of Apartheid-Era South Africa

By Mary Gaitskill | December 11, 2020

Will All Crime Novels Soon Be Historical Fiction?

Will All Crime Novels Soon Be Historical Fiction?

The Literary Disco Crew Discusses Scott O'Connor's Zero Zone

By Literary Disco | December 11, 2020

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

The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2020

By Book Marks | December 10, 2020

Clarice Lispector’s Son on the Personal Politics of His Mother

By Paulo Gurgel Valente | December 10, 2020

The 10 Best Literary Adaptations of the Year

By Emily Temple | December 10, 2020

When a Great Songwriter Turns Poet: On Richard Buckner's New Collection

When a Great Songwriter Turns Poet: On Richard Buckner's New Collection

Nina MacLaughlin Considers Cuttings From the Tangle

By Nina MacLaughlin | December 10, 2020

The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2020

The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2020

Featuring Nicole Krauss, Stephen King, Emma Cline, Zora Neale Hurston, and more

By Book Marks | December 9, 2020

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer's House

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer's House

Phoebe Hamilton-Jones in Praise of Literary Tourism (Done Well)

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones | December 8, 2020

Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

Mikka Jacobsen on Why Men Can't Keep Him Off Their Dating Profiles

By Mikka Jacobsen | December 8, 2020

Real Talk: On Claudia Rankine’s Painful Conversations with Whiteness

Real Talk: On Claudia Rankine’s Painful Conversations with Whiteness

Shya Scanlon Considers a Trilogy Sixteen Years in the Making

By Shya Scanlon | December 8, 2020

On Catholicism and Doomscrolling in Sigrid Undset's <em>Kristin Lavransdatter</em>

On Catholicism and Doomscrolling in Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | December 8, 2020

The Best Reviewed Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror of 2020

The Best Reviewed Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror of 2020

Featuring N. K. Jemisin, Stephen King,
Susanna Clarke, Karen Russell, and more

By Book Marks | December 8, 2020

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