• Literary Criticism

    The History of Literature

    Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

    By History of Literature  October 2, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    September’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

    By Rhonda Watts  September 28, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 28, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Aparna Nancherla on Writing as a Procrastinator

    By The Maris Review  September 28, 2023
    Shakespeare

    On Shakespeare’s Two Heroic Friends that Saved the Bard’s Plays From Being Burned

    By Gregory Doran  September 27, 2023
    On Translation

    “Bitterness Incarnate:” Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

    By Douglas J. Weatherford  September 27, 2023
    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
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