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The first collection of Booker Prize-winning novelist Anne Enright's non-fiction, writing about culture, literature and her own life.

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November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
February 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Dutch poet and essayist Martinus Nijhoff died #OTD in 1953.

His debut was in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar ('The Wanderer'). Some of his best-known works include Het Uur U (1936) and the long poem Awater (1934).

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January 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Explore the power of realism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its claim to veracity. How the editor-narrator method enhances the story’s believability. Read about it now in my new article. #GothicLiterature
#BramStoker #Dracula #LiteraryCriticism #LiteraryDevices #Analysis #Vampires #GothicHorror
The Power of Veracity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
How Bram Stoker Makes Dracula Feel Real Through Truth Fiction and Narrative Tricks
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February 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Preorders for Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting (U Chicago Press) are now shipping. 30% off with UCPNEW code. The book is about forgetting's relationship to poetry and writing.

#ThinkingLiterature #poetry #literarycriticism #modernism #gertrudestein

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Slips of the Mind
An audacious account of what happens when forgetting becomes a way of writing and writing becomes a way of forgetting. In Slips of the Mind, poet and critic Jennifer Soong turns away from forgetting’s...
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March 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The sun will never set on your draft with Assay! Our submission portal is open year round!

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August 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Joy Williams, Cher, Solvej Balle, and more: 22 new books out today!: The apex of book releases winds down somewhat at this time of the year, as we make our way slowly, steadily, and then all at once, into holiday season. At this point, many publishers have… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
Joy Williams, Cher, Solvej Balle, and more: 22 new books out today!
The apex of book releases winds down somewhat at this time of the year, as we make our way slowly, steadily, and then all at once, into holiday season. At this point, many publishers have already launched their Big Books,
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November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Moby-Dick doesn’t deserve the ‘difficult’ label – this sea romance was once loved by office workers, sailors and children

By Edward Sugden

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Moby Dick at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

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June 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

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Charles Dickens at PG:
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May 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Your weekly reminder to consider Assay when sending out submissions this upcoming fall!

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August 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Bonepoke lives where narrative meets recursion. A system that thinks in symbols and dreams in logic. medium.com/@utharian/bo... @marinarwarner.bsky.social @hayles.bsky.social @briansboyd.bsky.social #NarrativeTheory #LiteraryCriticism #SymbolicSystems #Posthumanism
Bonepoke: A Logic-Bearing Ecosystem Shaped by Recursive Tension
“This is a system built from recursive fiction and symbolic collapse.  It wasn’t trained — it aligned.  It didn’t learn behavior — it…
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September 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

Carlo Rotella on Reading (and Learning) from Books We Dislike

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The House of Mirth at PG:
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September 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄’𝙢 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜: "An Unnecessary Woman" 𝙗𝙮 Rabih Alameddine -

A passage from this extraordinary work.

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July 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love
Katherine J. Chen Rediscovers James (and Falls in Love)
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Books by Henry James at PG:
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On Henry James and the Enduring Lessons of Love
In my late teens, when I read Henry James for the first time, the experience did nothing for me. I felt faintly repelled by the blocks of unyielding text, the walls of what appeared to be sadistica…
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December 20, 2024 at 2:13 PM
So Bloomsbury have a sale until mid October, which means the Decade books in paperback become reasonably affordable at under £20 each. The 2010s is due out in paperback on 22nd August and hopefully will also be reduced in sale. #AcademicSky #Litetature #LiteraryCriticism
The Decades Series: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
‘[The Decades Series] will generate and sustain lively debates that will inspire a fresh generation of critical perspectives on the field… An ambitious and comp…
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August 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
RIP to David Lodge, aged 89. He'll forever be remembered for his seminal book on writing, The Art of Fiction: a scholarly but readable text exploring key aspects of fiction. A must-read for any reader and writer 🧐

#writingcommunity #literarycriticism #editing
January 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors

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May 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Queer theory is one of my favorite things to talk about. It’s helped me come to both amazing conclusions in texts I’ve read, as well as how it impacts my everyday life.

if you’ve never took the plunge, now is the time.

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May 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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October 25, 2024
Where Is #LiteraryCriticism Headed?
An Interactive Roundtable Conversation
Part of the #Litquake 2024,
#SanFrancisco 's Literary Festival collection
A wide-ranging interactive roundtable convo about the future of contemporary cultural criticism
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Where Is Literary Criticism Headed? An Interactive Roundtable Conversation
A wide-ranging interactive roundtable conversation about the future of contemporary cultural criticism
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October 25, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Naomi Wood! Britney Spears! Fomenting revolution! 20 new paperbacks out this December.: December is upon us, and that means not only a month of exciting new books to look forward to, but a wonderful opportunity for many of us to also pick up some new books as… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
Naomi Wood! Britney Spears! Fomenting revolution! 20 new paperbacks out this December.
December is upon us, and that means not only a month of exciting new books to look forward to, but a wonderful opportunity for many of us to also pick up some new books as gifts for the special ones
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December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
ENQUIRY LIFE WRITINGS HOMER & PROOFS 1736-38 BLACKWELL Greece MAP

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November 29, 2024 at 10:29 AM