• Literary Criticism

    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 10, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 9, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 9, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

    By History of Literature  November 8, 2023
    True Crime

    Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime

    By Lindsay Hunter  November 7, 2023
    On Reading

    Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling

    By Drew Johnson  November 7, 2023
    Poetry

    How Diane Seuss Wrote The Poem That Matters Most to Her

    By Literary Hub  November 6, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Pantheons of the Past in the Present: A Reading List of Modern African Books Based on Mythology

    By Wole Talabi  November 3, 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 3, 2023
    Love and Romance

    Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

    By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Jesse David Fox On Cheap Laughs

    By The Maris Review  November 2, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 2, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Shir Alon and Joseph Farag on Palestinian Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 2, 2023
    Dracula

    Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

    By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  October 31, 2023
    Ghosts!

    On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 31, 2023
    Monsters

    “A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

    By Adrian Van Young  October 31, 2023
    Animals

    The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

    By Justin C Key  October 31, 2023
    Horror

    Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2023
    Epic poetry

    A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad‘s Opening Lines

    By Robin Lane Fox  October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    October’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    October’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

    By The Maris Review  October 26, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jonathan Lethem on the Depths of Gentrification

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 26, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 26, 2023
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