Kazuo Ishiguro’s Daytime Horror: On Cults, White Supremacy, and Pagan Aesthetics

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Daytime Horror: On Cults, White Supremacy, and Pagan Aesthetics

Mieko Anders Considers Klara and the Sun and Midsommar

By Mieko Anders | June 30, 2021

How the Prophetic Fiction of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Exposed the Dangers of Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

How the Prophetic Fiction of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Exposed the Dangers of Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

Margot Livesey on Address Unknown and the Dangers of Communal Mythology

By Margot Livesy | June 30, 2021

When Activist Poets Took Over a Tiny California Town

When Activist Poets Took Over a Tiny California Town

Uncovering a Unique Chapter in the History of American Poetry

By Lytle Shaw | June 30, 2021

16 new books to read while sitting directly in front of the fan.

16 new books to read while sitting directly in front of the fan.

By Katie Yee | June 29, 2021

Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

“His fallback, his signature, is always humor.”

By Charles McGrath | June 29, 2021

The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s <em>The General of the Dead Army</em>

The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | June 29, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Departure(s)
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Eating Ashes
  • Every One Still Here: Stories
  • Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

Tom Lin on the Importance of Conducting Literary Field Work

By Jane Ciabattari | June 29, 2021

Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and
Heidi James

By Heather Martin | June 28, 2021

Romance Novels for Hot-Everybody Summer

By Erin Flanagan | June 28, 2021

Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

Saskia Vogel Considers the Role of Writing as Memory in October Child

By Saskia Vogel | June 28, 2021

On the Unbearable Whiteness of Mainstream, Canonical Southern Literature 

On the Unbearable Whiteness of Mainstream, Canonical Southern Literature 

Anjali Enjeti Considers Racist Meta-Narratives and the Stories We Have Yet to Tell

By Anjali Enjeti | June 28, 2021

On the Enchanting, Hopelessly Beautiful Splendor and History of Venice

On the Enchanting, Hopelessly Beautiful Splendor and History of Venice

Orsola Casagrande, Editor of The Book of Venice, Recommends Writing About the Iconic City

By Orsola Casagrande | June 28, 2021

The Rise of the Crypto Writer? On What Literary NFTs Might Mean for the Book World

The Rise of the Crypto Writer? On What Literary NFTs Might Mean for the Book World

Walker Caplan on Blockchain, Blake Butler, and the Uneasy Intersection of Art, Tech, and Money

By Walker Caplan | June 25, 2021

Nathaniel Mackey on Evoking John Coltrane and the Visual Delights of Poetry

Nathaniel Mackey on Evoking John Coltrane and the Visual Delights of Poetry

Peter Mishler Talks with the Contemporary American Poet and National Book Award-Winner

By Peter Mishler | June 25, 2021

Kevin McIlvoy on the Periodic Reemergence of Ghost Stories

Kevin McIlvoy on the Periodic Reemergence of Ghost Stories

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | June 25, 2021

The Imitation of Consciousness: On the Present and Future of Natural Language Processing

The Imitation of Consciousness: On the Present and Future of Natural Language Processing

Stephen Marche Considers AI, Machine Learning, and “the Labyrinth of Another’s Being”

By Stephen Marche | June 23, 2021

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