How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness

How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness

Rachel Vorona Cote on Having the Right to Be 'Too Much'

By Rachel Vorona Cote | March 27, 2021

When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene

Alex Christofi on the Great Russian Writer's Struggle with Fame and Insecurity

By Alex Christofi | March 26, 2021

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

Kelsey Osgood on the Life of Vivien Eliot and a Misguided Historical Narrative That Won't Go Away

By Kelsey Osgood | March 26, 2021

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Returning to Riva: Close Reading a Little-Known Short Story by Franz Kafka

Daniel Heller-Roazen on Fleeting Narrators, Disappearing Text, and "The Hunter Gracchus"

By Daniel Heller-Roazen | March 26, 2021

P. Scott Cunningham on Miami's Poetry Scene

P. Scott Cunningham on Miami's Poetry Scene

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | March 26, 2021

Introducing Our Latest Podcast, <em>Finnegan and Friends</em>

Introducing Our Latest Podcast, Finnegan and Friends

A New Five-Part Series on the Most Mystifying Book Ever Written

By The Cosmic Library | March 25, 2021

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Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 25, 2021

Poetic Language and the Science of Rediscovery in One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Angus Fletcher | March 24, 2021

How BookTok Gets Into
Your Brain

By Bethanne Patrick | March 24, 2021

Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas<br> of Oral History

Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas
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Craig Taylor Recommends Svetlana Alexievich,
Ronald Blythe, and More

By Craig Taylor | March 24, 2021

<em>Reading Women</em> on Intersectional Trans Stories

Reading Women on Intersectional Trans Stories

A Deep Read of Meredith Talusan and Torrey Peters

By Reading Women | March 24, 2021

<em>So Many Damn Books</em> Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

So Many Damn Books Listeners Take the Mic to Recommend Their Faves

Featuring Betina González, Ross Gay, and Maria Dahvana Headley

By So Many Damn Books | March 24, 2021

17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

By Katie Yee | March 23, 2021

Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel's 1974 Essay,

Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel's 1974 Essay, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

This week on the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | March 23, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Broken Heart Of America</em> by Walter Johnson

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Broken Heart Of America by Walter Johnson

Stephanie Burt on One of the Finalists for Nonfiction

By Stephanie Burt | March 23, 2021

How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age

Marco d'Eramo on Innocents Abroad, the Account of an Early Transatlantic Cruise

By Marco d'Eramo | March 22, 2021

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