• Literary Criticism

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 13, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

    By Emily Firetog  March 12, 2025
    The Writing Life

    What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

    By Will Rees  March 12, 2025
    In Conversation

    Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 12, 2025
    Folklore

    5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

    By Helen Nde  March 12, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Helen Garner on Henry Green’s Party Going

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   March 12, 2025
    Thresholds

    Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective

    By Thresholds   March 12, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction

    By Drew Broussard  March 11, 2025
    Epic Showdowns

    The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16

    By Literary Hub  March 11, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Jackson Howard on Risking It All

    By The Critic and Her Publics   March 11, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Karen Russell Received an Ice Bucket as a Courtship Gift, and Other Literary Tidbits

    By Literary Hub  March 11, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  March 11, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Karen Russell! Torrey Peters! Joan Didion! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 11, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Wings in Time by Callie Garnett

    By Jessie Gaynor  March 10, 2025
    Banned Books

    Draw Me a Controversy: On the Banning of Beloved Children’s Book Author Eric Carle

    By Lisa Tolin  March 10, 2025
    Southern literature

    “A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

    By Jesmyn Ward  March 10, 2025
    Film Criticism

    What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

    By Henry Lien  March 10, 2025
    Poetry

    John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life

    By Essex Hemphill  March 7, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

    By Rebecca Worby  March 7, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  March 7, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    The Bear by Andrew Krivak

    By Jonny Diamond  March 6, 2025
    Epic Showdowns

    The Best Villains in Literature Bracket

    By Literary Hub  March 6, 2025
    Science fiction

    Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work of Early 20th-Century Science Fiction

    By Ted Chiang  March 6, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 6, 2025
    Mental Illness

    The Edge of the Abyss: William Styron at 100

    By Greg Cwik  March 6, 2025
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