Critical Mass

The Litblog Coop came on the scene in the spring of 2005 as a coordinated effort to promote awareness of—as its website put it—“the best of contemporary fiction, authors and

Fifty years ago the literary landscape shifted with the publication of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.” “The book wrote me,” Achebe told an anniversary celebration at New York’s

Speaking of truth in memoir, British author Sebastian Horsley has just stumbled on a new potential consequence for (a) writing a memoir that tells the truth about your life, and/or

Molly Giles, winner of the Balakian award, sent these notes on her experiences as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction this year; the award went to Kate Christensen’s

In New Zealand for a literary festival, Ian McEwan dutifully submits to a Q-and-A, and what’s refreshing is his refusal to play the Great Man. Asked how much talent he

“The Art of Teaching the Book Review,” a master class with NBCC member James Shapiro [left], book critic and Shakespeare scholar who teaches a class in book reviewing at Columbia

The revamped New Haven review, edited by Mark Oppenheimer, just launched a new website and a new series of reviews on “unfairly neglected books.” I don’t know if they’re taking

Only two years after the Frey Affair, we seem to have regained our innocence about that slippery genre, the memoir. How else to explain the shock and outrage surrounding the