• Literary Criticism

    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Catherine Menon and Colm Tóibín at the Hay Festival

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 28, 2021
    Rural America

    Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

    By Gigi Georges  May 27, 2021
    Science fiction

    Bo-Young Kim on Finding Unlikely Sci-Fi Influences

    By Bo-Young Kim  May 27, 2021
    Iraqi Poetry

    How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

    By Mona Kareem  May 27, 2021
    Politics

    How Would the Sisters of Little Women Experience the World Today?

    By Virginia Kantra  May 26, 2021
    Family Stories

    Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

    By B. Pietras  May 26, 2021
    News and Culture

    Judy Grahn on Erotic Power, Queerness, and the Goddess Inanna

    By Corinne Segal  May 26, 2021
    Summer reading

    38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2021
    Poetry

    Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

    By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez  May 25, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

    By Lit Century   May 25, 2021
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to read on the beach this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 25, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 24, 2021
    Titles

    Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

    By Chris Drangle  May 24, 2021
    Capitalism

    The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

    By Arielle Zibrak  May 24, 2021
    Storytelling

    Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

    By Linda Rui Feng  May 24, 2021
    Science fiction

    Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

    By Sharmila Cohen  May 21, 2021
    Book Titles

    77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

    By Edward Brooke-Hitching  May 21, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

    By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
    New Books Network

    What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

    By New Books Network  May 21, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    Classics

    How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

    By Phoebe Wynne  May 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

    By Keen On  May 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

    By Thresholds   May 19, 2021
    Misfits

    Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

    By Claire Fuller  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
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