• Literary Criticism

    Craft

    Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, “Unerring Stylist”

    By Hermione Lee  September 26, 2023
    Lit Century

    Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    By Lit Century   September 26, 2023
    Asian American Literature

    New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger

    By Alexander Chee  September 25, 2023
    Utopias

    Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

    By Jen Silverman  September 25, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott’s Fascinating Life

    By History of Literature  September 25, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 22, 2023
    Joy

    Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

    By Ross Gay  September 21, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 21, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

    By The Maris Review  September 21, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 21, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

    By Kate Roberts  September 19, 2023
    Latin American Literature

    The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps

    By Leonardo Padura  September 18, 2023
    The History of Literature

    James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

    By History of Literature  September 18, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 15, 2023
    What to Watch

    Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

    By Annie Berke  September 15, 2023
    Reissues

    A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke’s Lord Jim at Home

    By Ottessa Moshfegh  September 14, 2023
    The Maris Review

    John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

    By The Maris Review  September 14, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 14, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 14, 2023
    Comics

    On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel’s Fantastic Four

    By Jerry Craft  September 13, 2023
    Translation

    Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

    By Jordan Stump  September 12, 2023
    Climate Crisis

    Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

    By Michaela Cavanagh  September 11, 2023
    Classics

    How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

    By Robert Macfarlane  September 11, 2023
    Trauma and Healing

    The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

    By Catherine Buni  September 11, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Maaheen Ahmed on the Dynamism of Comics

    By History of Literature  September 11, 2023
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