Christine Jacobson finds a “convivial companion,” as well as catharsis, in “Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li,” edited by Brigid Hughes....

Why are there so many amateur therapists in today's fiction?...

A new book about caregiving in Victorian novels sheds valuable light on the crisis of healthcare today....

How James Joyce completed his great novel by his 40th birthday....

Richard Joseph interrogates the contemporary life of the critical hatchet job....

A transcript of the panel discussion "Under Review" — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 4....

The noir author’s personal notebooks have a claim to be her life’s major work....

Panashe Chigumadzi considers the generation that emerged after the Makerere University for the Conference of African Writers of English Expression....

The final collection of essays from a great Irish scholar....

Higgins’s new book examines the reactionary imagination in contemporary science fiction....

Josh Emmons tries to name an embarrassing feeling about art: the sad, amused, "not-schadenfreude" when excellent art is ignored....

Balzac’s great “Comédie humaine” offers a middle way between speculative fiction and autofiction....

Marjorie Perloff revisits the criticism of Russian Formalist Yuri Tynianov, whose essays have been collected in English for the first time....

It is very hard to talk properly about money in relation to creative work....

Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein considers the “organizing concerns” of Aaron Kunin....

Dan Sinykin finds cautious hope in “Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon” by Mark McGurl....

Dan Turello considers "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague," the recently published book by Guido Ruggiero....