• Literary Criticism

    Palestinian Literature

    Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 12, 2024
    Gaza

    “A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2024
    Children's Lit

    Stories That Astonish and Take Risks: Ten New Children’s Books Out in February

    By Caroline Carlson  February 12, 2024
    Poetry

    Jordan Pérez on Understanding Womanhood Through Nature and Learning Poetic Restraint

    By Jordan Pérez  February 12, 2024
    Reading Habits

    Less is More: Shannon Reed on Re-Learning How to Read

    By Shannon Reed  February 12, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 9, 2024
    Astrophysics

    The Physics of Fiction: How Art and Science Inspire Each Other

    By Paul Halpern  February 9, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 8, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on American Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 8, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 7, 2024
    Modern Classics

    Between Tragedy and Wit: Andrew Ewell on William Styron’s Classic, Sophie’s Choice

    By Andrew Ewell  February 7, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2024
    Poetry

    Faith, Witches, Grief, and Smoke: New Poetry Books to Read in February

    By David Woo  February 6, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Margaret Atwood! Anne Carson! Robot writers! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 6, 2024
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Vengeful Goddesses, Panther Zorro, and Time Travel Valleys: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Natalie Zutter  February 5, 2024
    Experimental Fiction

    Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

    By Kirsty Gunn  February 5, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

    By Ed Simon  February 5, 2024
    Forgotten Classics

    Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

    By Erik Wood  February 5, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 2, 2024
    Reading Lists

    A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

    By Jamila Ahmed  February 2, 2024
    Paperbacks

    Matthew Salesses! V (Eve Ensler!) Doomsday cults! 26 books out in paperback this February.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 2, 2024
    Publishing

    Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

    By Maris Kreizman  February 1, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Diana Khoi Nguyen is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  February 1, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 1, 2024
    Reading Lists

    January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  January 31, 2024
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