• Literary Criticism

    Best of 2020

    The Top 10 Most Totally Metal
    Books of 2020

    By Keaton Patterson  December 11, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Mary Gaitskill on Love, Violence, and Submission in Agaat

    By Mary Gaitskill  December 11, 2020
    Literary Disco

    Will All Crime Novels Soon Be Historical Fiction?

    By Literary Disco  December 11, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 10, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Clarice Lispector’s Son on the Personal Politics of His Mother

    By Paulo Gurgel Valente  December 10, 2020
    Best of the Year

    The 10 Best Literary Adaptations of the Year

    By Emily Temple  December 10, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    When a Great Songwriter Turns Poet: On Richard Buckner’s New Collection

    By Nina MacLaughlin  December 10, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 9, 2020
    Literary Tourism

    On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer’s House

    By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  December 8, 2020
    Dating

    Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

    By Mikka Jacobsen  December 8, 2020
    On Race

    Real Talk: On Claudia Rankine’s Painful Conversations with Whiteness

    By Shya Scanlon  December 8, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Catholicism and Doomscrolling in Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter

    By Lit Century   December 8, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 8, 2020
    Reading Women

    Announcing the Winners of Reading Women’s 2020 Award

    By Reading Women  December 8, 2020
    Best of the Year

    Our 65 Favorite Books of the Year

    By Emily Temple  December 7, 2020
    News and Culture

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2020
    Reading Women

    Meredith McCarroll on Diverting Our Attention Away from J. D. Vance and Back to Appalachia

    By Reading Women  December 7, 2020
    Young Adult

    The Hidden Literary Heritage of Harriet the Spy

    By Leslie Brody  December 4, 2020
    TV

    Who Gets to Be a Sympathetic Character in The Undoing?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 4, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Mr. Difficult Rides Again: On the Unexpected Genius of William Gaddis’s Masterpiece

    By Patrick Allington  December 3, 2020
    Prizes

    On the Misguided Norwegian Exceptionalism Underlying the Nobel Peace Prize

    By Unni Turrettini  December 3, 2020
    Trilogies

    Kelly Link: Why You Should Read This Classic Trilogy

    By Kelly Link  December 2, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    On Colonial Nostalgia and Food in Fantasy Writing

    By Lizzy Saxe  December 1, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Love, Travel, and Separation: On Bertolt Brecht and His Lover-Collaborators

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 1, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creation of the Modern
    Fantasy Novel

    By History of Literature  November 30, 2020
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