• Literary Criticism

    The History of Literature

    Celia Brayfield on How Anna Sewell Changed Animal Rights

    By History of Literature  October 16, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  October 13, 2023
    Horror

    Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror

    By Dorothea Lasky  October 13, 2023
    Pulp

    In Praise of Pulp Fiction

    By Isa Arsén  October 12, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Safiya Sinclair on Growing Up Rastafari

    By The Maris Review  October 12, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Rebecca Makkai on Progress, Misogyny, and #MeToo

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 12, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 12, 2023
    literary criticism

    The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon

    By Jessie Gaynor  October 11, 2023
    Witold Gombrowicz

    Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed

    By Adam Thirlwell  October 11, 2023
    Horror

    How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

    By Alexandra Dos Santos  October 11, 2023
    Australian Literature

    Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner’s The Children’s Bach

    By Rumaan Alam  October 10, 2023
    In Conversation

    Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

    By Laura van den Berg  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

    By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
    Profiles

    Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

    By Adam Dalva  October 9, 2023
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos’ Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

    By Ann Patchett  October 9, 2023
    International Literature

    Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

    By Joyelle McSweeney  October 9, 2023
    Robots

    Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

    By Dan Hope  October 6, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  October 6, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alex Reisner on Covering Books3 and Fighting Piracy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 5, 2023
    The Maris Review

    C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

    By The Maris Review  October 5, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 5, 2023
    Queer Lit

    Queerness Made Quotidian: Gabrielle Bellot on the Quiet Power of Roaming

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 2, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: An Unflinching Novel of South African History and Inheritance

    By Lucy Scholes  October 2, 2023
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