• Literary Criticism

    Letters

    Inside the Long Friendship of James Merrill and
    Elizabeth Bishop

    By James Merrill  April 1, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  April 1, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Reading James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake… Without Trying to Decode It

    By The Cosmic Library   April 1, 2021
    Translation

    Have Italian Scholars Figured Out the Identity of Elena Ferrante?

    By Elisa Sotgiu  March 31, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books
    of the Month

    By Book Marks  March 31, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2021
    Rereadings

    Revisiting Speedboat in Search of a New York City That Never Really Existed

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2021
    Immigration stories

    Gabriela Garcia on the Interplay Between Literature and Class Consciousness

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Sherry Turkle on AI and the Perils of Pretend Empathy

    By Keen On  March 30, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Gloria Naylor Captures Love in The Women of
    Brewster Place

    By Lit Century   March 30, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Reckoning with Nabokov’s Classic, Controversial Lolita

    By History of Literature  March 29, 2021
    Public Intellectuals

    A Novel Life: On the Literary and Political Legacy of
    Edward Said

    By Timothy Brennan  March 29, 2021
    Children's Literature

    How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  March 27, 2021
    Literary History

    When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

    By Alex Christofi  March 26, 2021
    Literary Biographies

    How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

    By Kelsey Osgood  March 26, 2021
    Close Reading

    Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

    By Daniel Heller-Roazen  March 26, 2021
    The Literary Life

    P. Scott Cunningham on Miami’s Poetry Scene

    By The Literary Life  March 26, 2021
    The Cosmic Library

    Introducing Our Latest Podcast, Finnegan and Friends

    By The Cosmic Library   March 25, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 25, 2021
    Literary Innovation

    Poetic Language and the Science of Rediscovery in One Hundred Years of Solitude

    By Angus Fletcher  March 24, 2021
    Social Media

    How BookTok Gets Into
    Your Brain

    By Bethanne Patrick  March 24, 2021
    Oral Histories

    Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas
    of Oral History

    By Craig Taylor  March 24, 2021
    Reading Women

    Reading Women on Intersectional Trans Stories

    By Reading Women  March 24, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    So Many Damn Books Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

    By So Many Damn Books  March 24, 2021
    new books tuesday

    17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

    By Katie Yee  March 23, 2021
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