• Literary Criticism

    Science fiction

    Speculative Journeys: Sci-Fi for People Who Don’t Really Like Sci-Fi

    By Jon Raymond  July 26, 2022
    Coming of Age

    On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

    By Satya Doyle Byock  July 26, 2022
    Grammar

    What Happens When You Offer Grammar Advice to Complete Strangers in the Middle of Manhattan

    By Ellen Jovin  July 26, 2022
    In Conversation

    Teddy Wayne on Loving the Outcasts

    By Jane Ciabattari  July 26, 2022
    Noir

    The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written

    By Dwyer Murphy  July 25, 2022
    Experimental Fiction

    Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

    By John Domini  July 25, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On Matsuo Bashō, Haiku’s Greatest Master

    By History of Literature  July 25, 2022
    Puerto Rico

    Return to San Sebastian: Novel Research As Road Trip in Puerto Rico

    By Leah Franqui  July 25, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  July 22, 2022
    Flash Fiction

    Micro, Sudden, Flash, Short-Shorts: A Brief Survey of Even Briefer Fiction

    By Gary Lippman  July 22, 2022
    Love

    L-O-V-E: A Reading List For Lovers, Love-Seekers and the Loved

    By Zibby Owens  July 22, 2022
    Literary Disco

    With Violence All Around Us, What Does It Actually Mean For a Book To Be a Crime Novel?

    By Literary Disco  July 22, 2022
    Micro

    Putting the Macro in Micro: Abby Manzella on World-Building in Microfiction

    By Micro   July 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 21, 2022
    Directors

    8 Women Directors from Around the World You Should Be Watching

    By David Jenkins  July 21, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: CJ Hauser on Finding Joy in the Not-Knowing

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 21, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 21, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Vauhini Vara: How Fiction Helps Us Understand the Path We’re on Now

    By Book Dreams  July 21, 2022
    Midlife

    Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

    By Sarah McCraw Crow  July 21, 2022
    Speculative fiction

    On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa

    By Alanna Schubach  July 21, 2022
    Adaptations

    How a Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons Crossover Almost Happened

    By Ben Riggs  July 20, 2022
    Hollywood

    Bad Hollywood: A Reading List to Understand Harvey Weinstein’s Twisted World

    By Ken Auletta  July 20, 2022
    Video Games

    How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

    By Jamil Jan Kochai  July 20, 2022
    Thresholds

    Crystal Hana Kim on Never Knowing the Full Story of People We Love

    By Thresholds   July 20, 2022
    American Classics

    “A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

    By Ash Davidson  July 19, 2022
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