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Literary Criticism
How George Saunders’s Analysis of Russian Masters Provides a Critical Language for Audio Narratives
Sarah Montague Applies
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
to Seminal Radio Works
By
Sarah Montague
| May 20, 2026
Strange, Mysterious and Beautiful: Rachel Mills Recommends Essential Novels of Sisterhood
Featuring Work by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Mary Lyn Bracht, Abigail Bergstrom and More
By
Rachel Mills
| May 20, 2026
Why, As Writers, Do We Cut the Things We Love?
Kayla Rae Whitaker on the “Animal Data” That Makes Up a Good Story
By
Kayla Rae Whitaker
| May 20, 2026
The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days)
You Have Clarke Speicher to Thank (Or Blame) For the
Recent
Train Dreams
Adaptation
By
Julien C. Levy
| May 19, 2026
Heather Eng Recommends Six Books About the American Dream and Social Striving
Featuring Marisa Kashino, Susie Yang, Danzy Senna, and More
By
Heather Eng
| May 19, 2026
What It Means to Go From School Drop Out to Writing Tutor
Djamel White on Teaching Kids How to Write
By
Djamel White
| May 19, 2026
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Paige Lewis, Ali Smith, Jesmyn Ward, and more: 21 new books out today!
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Julia Hass
| May 19, 2026
Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader
By
Anton Hur
| May 18, 2026
Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention
By
Katherine Kelaidis
| May 18, 2026
Navigating the Coming-of-Illness Narrative
“We need these stories, because they reveal a potent truth: no one is immune to illness and death.”
By
Lorraine Boissoneault
| May 18, 2026
Who Are You Stacey Levine? What Happens When a “Deeply Weird,” (Very) Small Press Novel is a Pulitzer Finalist
Max Pearl Gets to Know the Author of
Mice 1961
By
Max Pearl
| May 15, 2026
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring Vanessa Hua, Isaac Fitzgerald, Christina Baker Kline, and More
By
Book Marks
| May 15, 2026
On the Road to Canterbury Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer’s Classic
Adrian McKinty Searches For Fellow Pilgrims, a Copy of
Hyperion
in His Pack
By
Adrian McKinty
| May 15, 2026
Five Books For the Insomniac in Your Life
Ailsa Ross Recommends Byung-Chul Han, Annabel Abbs-Streets, Samantha Harvey, and More
By
Ailsa Ross
| May 15, 2026
Hollywood Needs to Stop Hot-Washing Literary Adaptations
Maris Kreizman on
Wuthering Heights, Scarpetta, Vladimir
, and an Epidemic of Beautiful People in the Wrong Roles
By
Maris Kreizman
| May 14, 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“It’s a character study of a woman becoming corrupted by the only kind of power she considers herself able to wield.”
By
Book Marks
| May 14, 2026
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