The Subplot
Megan Walsh
Published 2022
400 pages
The most popular literary criticism books of 2022
Literary criticism is writing about books and how they work. Studies of great authors, guides to movements and periods, close readings and essays on reading itself are all here. Useful for students, and rewarding for any reader who wants to go deeper into a favorite work. This list shows the ones first published in 2022.
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Catching the Light
Joy Harjo
2022 · 2023 edition
128 pages
Great Short Books A Year of Reading—Briefly
Kenneth C. Davis
2022 · 2023 edition
448 pages
Death by Landscape
Elvia Wilk
Published 2022
320 pages
The Scandal of Holiness Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Lauren Winner
Published 2022
240 pages
When Women Kill Four Crimes Retold
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Published 2022
242 pages
On Writing (and Writers) A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions
C. S. Lewis
Published 2022
191 pages
Fierce Appetites My Year of Untamed Thinking
Elizabeth Boyle
Published 2022
256 pages
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
Jaime Green, Ayana Johnson
Published 2022
336 pages
Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman
Julia Scheeres, Allison Gilbert
Published 2022
338 pages
The Wrath to Come Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Sarah Bartlett Churchwell
2022 · 2023 edition
464 pages
Blurb Your Enthusiasm
Louise Willder
Published 2022
352 pages
The Summer Friend A Memoir
Charles McGrath
Published 2022
240 pages
Mothman Apologia (Volume 116) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Robert Wood Lynn, Rae Armantrout
Published 2022
120 pages
On Browsing
Jason Guriel
Published 2022
112 pages
Rooms of Their Own Where Great Writers Write
Alex Johnson, James Oses
Published 2022
192 pages
My Trade is Mystery Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
Carl Phillips
Published 2022
100 pages
A Sentimental Education
Hannah McGregor
Published 2022
152 pages
The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
Patrick Hastings
Published 2022
328 pages
Hollywood Heroes How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God
Frank Turek, Zach Turek
Published 2022
256 pages
Black and Female
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Published 2022
158 pages
The Anatomy of Genres How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works
John Truby
Published 2022
720 pages
How to Tell a Story
Aristotle, Philip Freeman
Published 2022
259 pages
A Queen for All Seasons A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on Her Platinum Jubilee
Joanna Lumley
2022 · 2021 edition
320 pages