Penguin Classics

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

Roxane Gay on the Importance of Expanding and Complicating Our Understanding of Contemporary Feminist Thought

 
By Roxane Gay  March 25, 2025
On Writing

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

By Literary Hub  March 19, 2025
Women Writers

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women

By Arielle Zibrak  March 19, 2025
Harlem Renaissance

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
Asian American Literature

A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls

By David S. Cho  December 11, 2024
Filipino Literature

A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

By Patrick Rosal  November 13, 2024
Daily Fiction

The Transit of Venus

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 23, 2024
Deafness

Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign

By Sara Nović  September 9, 2024
True Crime

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan  July 1, 2024
Reissues

Appreciating the Understated Complexity of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing

By Nick Hornby  June 5, 2024
Queer Literature

A Queer, Carnivalesque Vision of Chile’s Independence Day from Pedro Lemebel

By Pedro Lemebel  May 29, 2024
Internment

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

By Kiyo Sato  May 15, 2024
literary criticism

A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
Native American Literature

A Rare Sacred Novel: Tommy Orange on the Genius of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

By Tommy Orange  March 12, 2024
Latin American Literature

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps

By Leonardo Padura  September 18, 2023
Comics

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel’s Fantastic Four

By Jerry Craft  September 13, 2023
Classics

How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

By Robert Macfarlane  September 11, 2023
Journalism

On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent

By David Chrisinger  May 30, 2023
Daily Fiction

Bread Givers

By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 28, 2023
Classic Literature

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  January 31, 2023
Mythology

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By Stephanie McCarter  November 8, 2022
Psychology

What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

By Joanne Greenberg  May 5, 2022
Short Stories

“family M”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 13, 2022
Childhood

On Rudolfo Anaya’s Expansive, Aching View of Childhood

By Erika L. Sánchez  March 28, 2022
Southern literature

On the Fever Dream Brilliance of Harry Crews

By Kevin Wilson  March 21, 2022
Blues

On Clarence Major’s Enduring Portrait of the Blues, Dirty Bird Blues

By Yusef Komunyakaa  February 9, 2022
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