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New Acquisitions in Literature (by Month)

• Best Books of 2022 [New York Public Library]
• 100 Notable Books of 2022, The 10 Best Books of 2022 [NY Times]
• The Best Books of 2022 So Far [New Yorker]
• Books We Love [NPR]
• The Best Books of 2022 [The Guardian]
• Best Books of 2022 [Book Riot]
• Best Books of 2022 [Kirkus Reviews]
• The Best Books of 2022 [Vulture]
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 [Time]
• The Best Reviewed Books of 2022: Fiction,  [Book Marks]
• Best Books 2022 [Publishers Weekly]
• Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 [Literary Hub]
• Best Books of 2022: Fiction  [Powell’s]
• The 10 Best Books of 2022 [The Washington Post]
• Best Books of 2022 [Amazon]
• The 10 Best Books of 2022 (Dan Kois), The 10 Best Books of 2022 (Laura Miller) [Slate]
• Best Books of 2022 [Goodreads]
• The Best of 2022 [Audible]

• The Mistress of Slang [Madeline Kripke, dictionaries] (Heidi Landecker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 6, 2023)
• The Costs of Women’s Writing: On Devoney Looser’s “Sister Novelists” [Jane & Anna Maria Porter] (Thomas McLean, LARB, February 2, 2023)
• The First Ordinary Woman in English Literature (Marion Turner, Lapham's Quarterly, January 25, 2023)
• The Secret Lives of Words  (John McWhorter, New York Times, January 10, 2023)
• Oxford Word of the Year 2022
• Literary Deaths of 2022 (Bill Morris, The Millions, December 29, 2022)
• A Century of Serious Difficulty [Joyce, Eliot, Wittgenstein] (Johanna Winant, Boston Review, December 7, 2022)
• To Find Great Female Novelists, Stop Looking in Jane Austen’s Shadow (Devoney Looser, Washington Post, November 25, 2022)
• A Fresh Twist to a Knot [Wollstonecraft and Godwin] (Daisy Hay, Lapham’s Quarterly, November 16, 2022)
• How the World’s Languages Evolved Over Time (Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater, Literary Hub, March 29, 2022)
• The Poet and the Whale ( review of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell) (Joe Moshenska, Literary Review, April, 2022)
• A Tiny Brontë Book, Lost for a Century, Resurfaces (Book Reporters, March 30, 2022)

• Joan Didion (Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio, December 23, 2021
• Robert Bly Obituary (Michael Carlson, The Guardian, November 23, 2021)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet and Founder of City Lights, Dead at 101 (Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2021)
• George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90 ( Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and William Grimes, New York Times, February 3, 2020)
• Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 (Dinitia Smith, New York Times, October 14, 2019) Guardian  NYRB
• W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 (Margalit Fox, New York Times, March 15, 2019)
• Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83 (Hillel Itale, Washington Post, January 17, 2019)
  [Readings by Oliver]​

• BookForum
• Boston Globe Books
• Claremont Review of Books
• London Review of Books  (for full content, login through Fogler here*)
• New York Review of Books  (for full content, login through Fogler here*)
• New York Times Book Review
• The Threepenny Review
• Times Literary Supplement  (for full content, login through Fogler here*)
• The New Rambler
• Open Letters Monthly

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• Critical Mass   Blog of the National Book Critics Circle.
• The Literary Saloon  A newsy blog.
• Romantic Circles: A Refereed Scholarly Website Devoted to the Study of Romantic-Period Literature and Culture
• In the Spotlight (British Library) Digitized 18th- and 19th-century playbills.
• The Modernist Journals Project
• Victorian Hyper-Concordance
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (LC)
• From the Catbird Seat:  Poetry and Literature at LC
• The Books of the Century: 1900-1999
• This Day in Lettres (The American Reader)
• “Hell is other people’s coffee”​ (Literary Starbucks)
• Poem-a-Day
• Poem of the Day (Poetry Foundation)
• Voice of the Shuttle
• Selected Readings

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Project REVEAL (Ransom Center, UT Austin)  makes available 25 of the Center's manuscript collections of some of the best-known names from American and British literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the authors represented in Project REVEAL are Joseph Conrad, Hart Crane, Thomas Hardy, Vachel Lindsay, Jack London, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sara Teasdale.