• Literary Criticism

    End Times

    Betina González on Economic Precarity, End Times, and
    Killer Deer

    By Yuri Herrera  March 8, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood

    By J. Howard Rosier  March 8, 2021
    Literary History

    The Publisher Who Transformed the Careers of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams

    By Alan M. Klein  March 5, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Homie by Danez Smith

    By Diego Báez  March 5, 2021
    Narrators

    Who Are Some of the Best Kid Narrators in Literature?

    By Chris Whitaker  March 4, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 4, 2021
    The Hub

    Two of my favorite writers died this day. Here’s why you should read them.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 3, 2021
    Politics

    The Limits of Representation: Huda Awan Finds Herself in Portnoy’s Complaint

    By Huda Awan  March 3, 2021
    Obsessions

    On Obsessive Female Relationships in Literature: A Reading List

    By Forsyth Harmon  March 3, 2021
    Thresholds

    Fernanda Melchor on the Complicities of Fairy Tales and Femicide

    By Thresholds   March 3, 2021
    Gothic Literature

    Darkest New England: What is the Northern Gothic Literary Tradition?

    By W.S. Winslow  March 3, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Red Comet by Heather Clark

    By Tara Wanda Merrigan  March 3, 2021
    The Hub

    17 new books to look forward to.

    By Katie Yee  March 2, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Ultra-Relatable, Modern Burnout of Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6”

    By Lit Century   March 2, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Carol Edgarian and Ann Beattie Talk Complex Characters and Literary Inspirations

    By Ann Beattie  March 2, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Home Baked by Alia Volz

    By Stephanie Burt  March 2, 2021
    NBCC Awards

    This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Obit by Victoria Chang

    By Charles Finch  March 1, 2021
    Film

    (Almost) Every Cultural Reference in Pretend It’s a City, Annotated

    By Annie Berke  March 1, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

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

    By Emily Temple  March 1, 2021
    Language

    A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

    By Claudio Lomnitz  March 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Brief Life and Towering Accomplishments of Lorraine Hansberry

    By History of Literature  March 1, 2021
    Politics

    When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

    By Kim Echlin  March 1, 2021
    The Writing Life

    When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

    By Simon Leser  February 26, 2021
    Horror

    The Best Nightmarish Fiction:
    A Reading List

    By Angela Buck  February 26, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body

    By The Literary Life  February 26, 2021
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