• Literary Criticism

    Reissues

    A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke’s Lord Jim at Home

    "I didn’t care, and I didn’t worry, but I was suspended, consistently and dramatically, in the mirage of the novel."

     
    By Ottessa Moshfegh  September 14, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 14, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 14, 2023
    Comics

    On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel’s Fantastic Four

    By Jerry Craft  September 13, 2023
    Translation

    Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

    By Jordan Stump  September 12, 2023
    Climate Crisis

    Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

    By Michaela Cavanagh  September 11, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Classics

    How Jonathan Raban’s Passage to Juneau Decolonizes Nature Writing

    By Robert Macfarlane  September 11, 2023
    Trauma and Healing

    The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

    By Catherine Buni  September 11, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Maaheen Ahmed on the Dynamism of Comics

    By History of Literature  September 11, 2023
    The Maris Review

    John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

    In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

    By The Maris Review  September 14, 2023
    Memoirs

    Porochista Khakpour on the Unrelatable Brilliance of Alison Rose’s Better Than Sane

    By Porochista Khakpour  September 7, 2023
    Boarding School

    A New Era for Boarding School Literature

    By Emma Staffaroni  September 7, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 7, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Myriam Gurba on Writing the Visceral

    In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

    By The Maris Review  September 7, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 7, 2023
    Diaries

    A Fearless, Free, Literary Space: On Writers’ Diaries

    By Isabella Trimboli  September 6, 2023
    Criticism

    Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

    By Safiya Sinclair  September 6, 2023
    Poetry

    Elaine Equi on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice and a Universal Language

    "In poems, we converse and commune with the zeitgeist or spirit of the age."

    By Elaine Equi  September 5, 2023
    The Lord of the Rings

    Is The Lord of the Rings a Work of Modernism?

    By Nick Groom  September 5, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: On Love’s Many Manifestations in A Green Equinox

    By Lucy Scholes  September 1, 2023
    Poetry

    A Month of Poetic Acrobatics: 7 New Poetry Books to Read in September

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  September 1, 2023
    Fathers and Sons

    How The Odyssey Helped My Father and Me to Grow

    Daniel Mendelsohn on His Father and Making Lessons That Live On

    By Daniel Mendelsohn  September 1, 2023
    Reading List

    A Reading List of Realistic Portraits of Mothers and Daughters in Literature

    By Jill Talbot  September 1, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  September 1, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 8, 2023
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