A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.

• The New York Review of Books
• 4 gün, 3 saat

Not sure where to start with romantasy? These six enchanting books are perfect choices for readers new to the genre.

• Book Riot
• 3 gün, 23 saat, 27 dakika

In honor of Halloween and longer nights, pick up these four fun fantasies featuring phantoms. Say that four times fast!

• Book Riot
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Gambit’s death in X-Men ’97 was one of the show’s most tragic moments, but a new reveal about the upcoming season 2 makes this so much worse. Instead of bringing the X-Men team into the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper, X-Men ’97 revisited the version of the team from X-Men: The Animated Series, which ran for […] The post X-Men ‘97 Is About To Make Gambit’s Death So Much Worse appeared first on ComicBook.com .

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• 3 gün, 23 saat, 30 dakika

A single neighborhood can be a microcosm of a city at the breaking point, showing how disparate lives brush up against one another, exposing the fault lines of the present moment, how perhaps our starkest divide is between those who own property and those who can’t.  In my novel, Property, the residents of an uneasily […] The post 7 Books About the Precarity of Urban Life appeared first on Electric Literature .

• Electric Literature
• 3 gün, 23 saat, 55 dakika

Here are the fall book releases everyone is talking about, plus more book news relevant to library workers.

• Book Riot
• 3 gün, 23 saat, 59 dakika

Mark your calendars for these exciting upcoming adaptations and book releases, including The Lying Game coming to Amazon Prime.

• Book Riot
• 4 gün

As far as American literature goes, an all-white cast of characters is unexceptional and routinized to the point of banality. However, in the fourteen satirical short stories from Mark Doten’s Whites—each centered on a character who is…well, white—Doten does something unexpected. In mordantly comic prose, they write a whiteness that is sharpened to a point […] The post Their Unbearable Whiteness Blots Out the Light appeared first on Electric Literature .

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• 4 gün

58 books you need to read (recommended by 42 writers, editors, and booksellers in honor of our 10th birthday!). | Lit Hub Reading Lists Lukas Gage recommends his favorite celebrity memoirs by Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, and more! | Lit

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 30 dakika

The cost of the invasion in matériel and lives lost was enormous, but Allied troops were now planted on French soil. To guard against undue optimism that the war in Europe would soon be over, the war correspondents stressed the

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 2 saat, 1 dakika

Memoirs have always been a favorite genre of mine. There’s something about seeing people completely overshare, especially in the areas the bad, the ugly, or the “failures” that makes me feel less insane about my own mess. These books didn’t

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 2 saat, 1 dakika

Quan Barry is an award-winning playwright (and poet) as well as a novelist, skills which show in the virtuosity of the ensemble of characters she has created in The Unveiling. Her primary narrator Striker, a Black film scout booked on

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 2 saat, 1 dakika

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Grady Chambers (Great Disasters) Julia Ioffe (Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy)

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 2 saat, 2 dakika

Courtney collected small happinesses. Red lipstick. The permanent kiss-mark on a dog’s face. Scrawling a line of poetry on a mirror in a public place. The art of forgiveness. Music. Ballet. The people who populated her life, referred to always

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 2 saat, 2 dakika

First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin,

• Literary Hub
• 4 gün, 2 saat, 59 dakika

Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey. Originally launched as Write-minded in 2018, this is

• Literary Hub
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