• Literary Criticism

    Life in a Pandemic

    Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

    By Emily Temple  November 11, 2020
    Walking

    The Dissident Act of Taking a
    Walk at Night

    By Matthew Beaumont  November 11, 2020
    Audiobooks

    Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

    By James Tate Hill  November 11, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

    By Joannie Stangeland  November 11, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

    By Lit Century   November 10, 2020
    5 Questions

    In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

    By Literary Hub  November 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Why are we so hungry for books about cannibals?

    By Katie Yee  November 9, 2020
    Profiles

    Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

    By Brian Gresko  November 9, 2020
    Short Stories

    Shirley Hazzard’s Heroines and the World That
    Misunderstood Them

    By Zoë Heller  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

    By History of Literature  November 9, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Children's Lit

    Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

    By Leanne Hall  November 6, 2020
    Poetry

    Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet
    Ana Cristina Cesar

    By Elisa Wouk Almino  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    Lit Crit

    A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

    By Tom Comitta  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Titles

    What We Talk About When We Talk About This Title Format

    By Fiona Bell  November 4, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Female Friendship and Transgression in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    By Lit Century   November 3, 2020
    Work

    Becoming a Zoom Typewriter Poet for Hire

    By Brian Sonia-Wallace  November 3, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On Carl Hiaasen, Florida Childhoods, and Catching Alligators

    By NewberyTart   November 3, 2020
    Criticism

    Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word

    By Gabriel García Márquez  November 2, 2020
    The History of Literature

    George Orwell’s 1984 is Always Just Around the Corner

    By History of Literature  November 2, 2020
    Ghosts!

    How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

    By M Dressler  October 30, 2020
    Film Criticism

    Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

    By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2020
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