• Literary Criticism

    The Writing Life

    The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

    Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors

     
    By Arvind Ethan David  May 23, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    Speculative fiction

    Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

    By Elizabeth Costello  May 23, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 23, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap

    By Drew Broussard  May 22, 2025
    Anniversary

    Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

    By Hari Kunzru  May 22, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Book Marks

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 22, 2025
    AI

    You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

    By Maris Kreizman  May 22, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 22, 2025
    Narrative

    What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

    T.J. Martinson Explores the Narrative Role of Sight on the Page and in the Real World

    By T.J. Martinson  May 23, 2025
    Food Writing

    Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

    By Adam Roberts  May 20, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Include as Little History as You Can: The Danger of Explaining Too Much in Historical Fiction

    By Jesse Browner  May 20, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Ben Calhoun on Editing for the Ear

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 20, 2025
    In Conversation

    Talk Fiction: Adelaide Faith on Turning an Obsession with Her Therapist into a Novel

    The Author of “Happiness Forever” in Conversation with Chelsea Hodson

    By Chelsea Hodson  May 19, 2025
    Influences

    Actually, It’s Ok to Steal Your Ideas. Sort Of… (Or: Learning to Love My Literary Influences)

    By Bryan VanDyke  May 19, 2025
    Overlooked Women

    “Don Quixote,” Proto-Feminist Text: How Cervantes’ Daughter Shaped His Novel

    By Martha Bátiz  May 19, 2025
    Short Stories

    One great short story to read today: Alistair MacLeod, “To Everything There Is a Season”

    By Jonny Diamond  May 16, 2025
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen’s Legacy Lives on in Rom-Coms

    Hannah Benson on “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” the Newest Edition to the Austen Expanded Universe

    By Hannah Benson  May 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 16, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 15, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  May 15, 2025
    Bookstores

    Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

    By Monica Macansantos  May 15, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 15, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Should I Stay or Should I Go? Five Novels Involving Destructive Relationships

    By Meg Serino  May 21, 2025
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