• Literary Criticism

    new books tuesday

    25 new books coming out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 11, 2023
    Write-minded

    Jinwoo Chong on Executing an Ambitious Book Project

    By Write-minded   April 11, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “It Was a Skeleton of a Book.” Marisa Crane on World-Building in Their Debut Novel 

    By I'm a Writer But   April 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Novelist Juliette Fay Explains Why Regret is Such Fertile Territory for Fiction Writers

    By Keen On  April 11, 2023
    Sentences

    Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence

    By Ed Simon  April 10, 2023
    Poets

    Joy Harjo on Being a Poet and Witness to History

    By Joy Harjo  April 10, 2023
    First Draft

    Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 10, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

    By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
    On Poetry

    Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry

    By Literary Hub  April 10, 2023
    Librarians

    The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

    By Blair Austin  April 10, 2023
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    By Literary Hub  April 7, 2023
    Neuroscience

    The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

    By Adrian Johns  April 7, 2023
    Theater

    When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

    By Nancy Schoenberger  April 7, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

    By Jane Roper  April 7, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Dan Sheehan  April 7, 2023
    Spirituality

    Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

    By Christiana Spens  April 7, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    A Passion for Living in the Present:
    A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

    By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda  April 6, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 6, 2023
    Fairy Tales

    Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

    By Jack Zipes  April 6, 2023
    Colonialism

    Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

    By Nandini Das  April 6, 2023
    Otherppl

    Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 6, 2023
    Catholicism

    Power and Resistance in the Catholic Church: A Reading List

    By Mary Jo McConahay  April 6, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 6, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Diana Janney on the Philosophical Foundations of Her Fiction

    By Keen On  April 6, 2023
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