• Literary Criticism

    The Hub

    A The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas sequel will be published this year. It’s controversial.

    By Walker Caplan  March 2, 2022
    Ukraine

    “You’ve got to live somewhere you aren’t afraid to die.” Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry From Kharkiv

    By Literary Hub  March 2, 2022
    Girlhood

    Caught Through the Looking Glass: Sarah Polley on Grief, Girlhood, and Scoliosis

    By Sarah Polley  March 2, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Shifting Unreliability of Memory: A Reading List

    By Jo Harkin  March 2, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Eleven Over Sixty: A Reading List of Later in Life Debuts

    By Kathleen Courtenay Stone  March 2, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Betina González on The Little Prince, Walden, and A Wizard of Earthsea

    By Book Marks  March 2, 2022
    Totalitarianism

    On the Ukrainian Poets Who Lived and Died Under Soviet Suppression

    By Myroslav Laiuk  March 1, 2022
    On Writing

    “When? Where? How?” Margaret Atwood Considers the Burning Questions of the Writing Life

    By Margaret Atwood  March 1, 2022
    Fashion

    How the Beat Generation Created the Uniform for Disaffected Youth

    By Sophie Wilson  March 1, 2022
    Religion

    Experiencing Kenosis in the Poetry of Donne and Shakespeare

    By Jason Gots  March 1, 2022
    News and Culture

    Actually, Not Everything is Writing: Sarah Moss on Why She Likes to Knit and Run

    By Sarah Moss  March 1, 2022
    Literary History

    Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  March 1, 2022
    Keen On

    John Scalzi on Writing a Sci-Fi Novel Based in a Post-Covid World

    By Keen On  March 1, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    March’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  March 1, 2022
    new books tuesday

    18 new books coming into the world today.

    By Katie Yee  March 1, 2022
    The Hub

    A literary guide to crying in New York City.

    By Snigdha Koirala  February 28, 2022
    Ukraine

    Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War

    By Ilya Kaminsky  February 28, 2022
    Craft and Criticism

    The Cerebral, Gut-Wrenching World of Antonio di Benedetto

    By Juan José Saer  February 28, 2022
    Film History

    Is Adaptation a Feminine Act? On the Women Writers Who Worked on Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    By Annie Berke  February 28, 2022
    Hip Hop

    On Rap’s Linguistic Twists and Turns

    By Daniel Levin Becker  February 28, 2022
    News and Culture

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of February

    By Book Marks  February 28, 2022
    Big Table

    Daniel Oppenheimer on Why We Should Read Dave Hickey

    By Big Table  February 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Recommended: This close reading of Ilya Kaminsky’s “We Lived Happily During the War.”

    By Jonny Diamond  February 25, 2022
    The Internet Age

    Reconsidering the Conventions of the So-Called Internet Novel

    By James Webster  February 25, 2022
    African American Literature

    A Book List for Black Dreams and Black Time

    By Gabrielle Civil  February 25, 2022
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