• Literary Criticism

    Humor

    Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

    By Michael Wood  August 25, 2023
    Remembrances

    Looking Back at the Groundbreaking Puerto Rican Spanglish Novel Yo-Yo Boing!

    By Rolando Pérez  August 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  August 25, 2023
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

    By John Plotz  August 24, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 24, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 24, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

    By The Maris Review  August 24, 2023
    Reading Habits

    On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature

    By Josh Cook  August 23, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Kathryn Bromwich Reads From At the Edge of the Woods

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  August 23, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Vanessa Riley on Haiti’s Only Queen

    By History of Literature  August 21, 2023
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  August 18, 2023
    Jane Austen

    The Pleasure and Communion of Austen’s Country Dance

    By Cornelia Powers  August 17, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 17, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Edan Lepucki on the Rules of Time Travel and When She’d Like to Revisit

    By The Maris Review  August 17, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 17, 2023
    Love

    Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great’s Animosity Towards Desire

    By Ron Rosenbaum  August 16, 2023
    Children's Lit

    Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

    By Ethan Warren  August 16, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Jo Caulfield Reads From The Funny Thing About Death

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  August 16, 2023
    literary greats

    How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People’s Minds

    By Miranda Miller  August 16, 2023
    Religion

    On Drinking, the Devil, and Paradise Lost

    By Ed Simon  August 15, 2023
    Shakespeare

    How Performances of Othello Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

    By Farah Karim-Cooper  August 15, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    What I Saw of Motherhood and Climate in Antarctica

    By Elizabeth Rush  August 15, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Mike Palindrome on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece

    By History of Literature  August 14, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  August 11, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 10, 2023
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