• Literary Criticism

    Artists

    How Truman Capote and Andy Warhol’s Complex Friendship Marked Them Both

    By Blake Gopnik and Rob Roth  September 21, 2022
    Climate Change

    Beyond Apocalypse: How the New Eco-Literature Points Toward Ways of Reshaping Our Consciousness

    By Alan Rossi  September 21, 2022
    Classic Novels

    Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia

    By Maggie O'Farrell  September 20, 2022
    In Conversation

    Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

    By Chloé Cooper Jones  September 19, 2022
    Fragmentary Essays

    Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

    By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
    Education

    Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

    By Deborah Appleman  September 19, 2022
    Folklore

    In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

    By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore  September 19, 2022
    WWII

    When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

    By Tanya Paperny  September 16, 2022
    Books In Translation

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  September 16, 2022
    Recap

    Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

    By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2022
    Adaptations

    On Malcolm Lowry’s Yearslong, Fruitless Attempt to Adapt Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night for Film

    By Michael Melgaard  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 15, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    What to Watch

    43 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2022
    18th Century Literature

    How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

    By Andrea Wulf  September 14, 2022
    Journalism

    How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

    By Tracey Lien  September 14, 2022
    On Race

    Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

    By Chinelo Okparanta  September 14, 2022
    Thresholds

    Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

    By Thresholds   September 14, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Two or Three Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard

    By Olivia Rutigliano  September 14, 2022
    Family Stories

    Families Far Worse Than Yours: A Reading List

    By Sally Koslow  September 14, 2022
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