• Literary Criticism

    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
    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
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