• Literary Criticism

    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
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 10, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Elizabeth Acevedo on Fun with Footnotes, Family History, and Alpha Vaginas

    By The Maris Review  August 10, 2023
    Novellas

    Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

    By John Fulton  August 9, 2023
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Percival Everett on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   August 8, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

    By Joshua Glenn  August 7, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Exploring Literary New Orleans

    By History of Literature  August 7, 2023
    Dystopias

    Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

    By Madeline Ashby  August 4, 2023
    On Translation

    In Praise of “Spicy Interpretation”: On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

    By Jessica Sequeira  August 4, 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 4, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture and the Summer of Love or Hate

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 3, 2023
    Myths and Legends

    Wherefore Art Thou Arthur?: On What Lies Behind Our National Myths and Legends

    By Victoria Gosling  August 3, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Shane McCrae Is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

    By Hannah Bonner  August 3, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 3, 2023
    Queer Literature

    How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

    By Shastri Akella  July 31, 2023
    Indian Literature

    Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri’s The Immortals

    By Pankaj Mishra  July 31, 2023
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