• Literary Criticism

    2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

    “The Status Quo is Not an Option…” John Vaillant on Our Climate Future

    By Alex Clark  November 22, 2023
    The Maris Review

    K-Ming Chang On Pushing Every Sentence To Its Furthest Point

    By The Maris Review  November 22, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Dr. Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature

    By History of Literature  November 22, 2023
    Palestinian Literature

    Where is Mosab Abu Toha? A Poem from Gaza in 22 Languages

    By Mosab Abu Toha  November 21, 2023
    African American Literature

    The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead

    By Alexander Manshel  November 21, 2023
    Literary Journals

    “We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review

    By Mark Haber  November 21, 2023
    In Conversation

    Naomi Alderman on Creating a Fictional Tech Dystopia

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 21, 2023
    Lit Century

    Christine Coulson on John Cheever and Dorothy Parker

    By Lit Century   November 21, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 17, 2023
    Rare Books

    Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

    By Beth Kephart  November 16, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 16, 2023
    Palestinian Literature

    On Literary Empathy and the Performative Reading of Palestinian Authors

    By Etaf Rum  November 16, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Zeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 16, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Ed Park on Panoramic Storytelling

    By The Maris Review  November 16, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

    By Ellen Adams  November 15, 2023
    Archives

    Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

    By Katherine Churchill  November 15, 2023
    Willa Cather

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine in Praise of Willa Cather and the American Southwest

    By Kali Fajardo-Anstine  November 14, 2023
    Climate Fiction

    On the False Promise of Climate Fiction 

    By Emma Pattee  November 14, 2023
    Bad Behavior

    My Feral Shelf: On Building a Personal Library of Bad Behavior

    By Jennifer Lucy Allan  November 14, 2023
    Palestine

    40 Books to Understand Palestine

    By Literary Hub  November 14, 2023
    Working Women

    What Working Minimum-Wage Jobs Taught Me About Writing Novels

    By Joanne McNeil  November 14, 2023
    Roundtable

    Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    In Conversation

    Tatiana Johnson-Boria on Writing Poems Like Film Montages

    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2023
    Excerpt

    The History of Writing is the History of Humanity

    By Walter Stephens  November 10, 2023
    Love and Romance

    Happy Endings Redefined: Why There Should Be More Books About Breakups

    By Hannah Sloane  November 10, 2023
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