• Literary Criticism

    Women Writers

    Good For Her: On the Reductive Meta-Storylines About Women’s Writing

    By Tara Yazdan Panah  March 27, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 27, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Earthquake Anxiety:
    Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

    By Emma Pattee  March 27, 2025
    Retellings

    Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

    By Ilan Stavans  March 27, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alex Higley on True Failure and Shark Tank

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 27, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Minor Detail by Adaina Shibli

    By Dan Sheehan  March 26, 2025
    Thresholds

    Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

    By Thresholds   March 26, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Provisionally Yours by Antanas Sileika

    By Molly Odintz  March 25, 2025
    Writing Trauma

    Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

    By Jamie Hood  March 25, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

    By The Critic and Her Publics   March 25, 2025
    Feminism

    Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

    By Roxane Gay  March 25, 2025
    Art and Life

    A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

    By Peter Trachtenberg  March 25, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 25, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

    By Drew Broussard  March 24, 2025
    Love Stories

    On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

    By Emily Usher  March 24, 2025
    Blackness

    Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

    By Mia Fowler  March 24, 2025
    Poetry

    Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

    By Julia Hass  March 21, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  March 21, 2025
    Brain Injury

    A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

    By Samina Ali  March 21, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Duplex by Kathryn Davis

    By Emily Temple  March 20, 2025
    MAGA

    Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2025
    Illness

    On Writing the Hospital

    By Madeleine Wulfahrt  March 20, 2025
    Italian Literature

    The Timeless Magic of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at 50

    By Anthony Doerr  March 20, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?

    By Kristen Arnett  March 20, 2025
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