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Interesting Literature
A literature blog by an English professor offering essays, trivia and close readings on novels, poems and writers, from…
Italian Poetry for English Speakers
A site that helps English speakers who do not read Italian appreciate Italian poetry, pairing classic poems with transla…
James Joyce Music
Hear the songs James Joyce wove into Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and Dubliners, with recordings, lyrics and notes on Dublin…
Jay Hulme
The site of award-winning poet and educator Jay Hulme, with essays and blog posts on poetry, identity, and life as a wor…
Kate Macdonald
Book reviews and an academic research archive from Kate Macdonald, writing about reading, publishing and literary histor…
Kids' Book Review
An Australian children's literature review site with news, author and illustrator interviews, articles, and guides to pi…
Lex
A free library for reading and listening to public domain books and audiobooks online, from Shakespeare and Jane Austen…
Library of Babel
A digital take on Borges' story that holds every possible page of 3,200 characters, letting you browse or search for any…
LibriVox
Free public-domain audiobooks read by volunteers around the world, with thousands of classic novels, poems, and historie…
LitCharts
Free literature study guides from the creators of SparkNotes, with chapter summaries, themes, and analysis for classic a…
Literary Hub
A daily literary website aggregating the best writing about books, publishing original essays, excerpts, criticism, and…
Literary Terms
A reference glossary of literary terms and devices with clear definitions and examples from famous works, plus quizzes a…
Literature Clock
A clock that tells the time using quotations from books, showing a passage that mentions the current minute together wit…
LRB Blog
The blog of the London Review of Books, with essays, reviews, and sharp commentary on politics, culture, and literature…
Maya Angelou on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A free recording from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive in which Maya Angelou discusses her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bir…
Moby Dick Big Read
Every chapter of Moby-Dick read aloud by a different voice, from famous actors to everyday readers, each paired with an…
Mr. Darcy's Ten Thousand a Year
An essay that decodes Mr. Darcy's famous income in Pride and Prejudice, using bond yields and 18th-century English finan…
N+7
An implementation of the Oulipo N+7 method that replaces every noun in a text with the seventh noun after it in the dict…
no man's land
An online magazine of contemporary German literature in English translation, publishing free short stories, poetry, and…
Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse
A longform piece in The Walrus arguing that the book industry blames readers for falling nonfiction sales when its own d…
On Beauty and the Death of African American Literature
An essay on Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty that asks whether African American literature is dying, examining Black petit…
On Finishing Finnegans Wake
Gabrielle Carey reflects on the many years it took her reading group to finish Finnegans Wake, and what Joyce's impossib…
Original Poems
A public domain poetry database you can search by poet or poem name, collecting a wide variety of poetry types in an ope…
Pinocchio Is Weirder Than You Remember
A look at the original 1881 Pinocchio serial, from the puppet hanging dead from an oak to donkey-skin drums and dead-gir…
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