Judy Blume
Mark Oppenheimer
Published 2026
480 pages
The most popular literary criticism books of 2026
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 2026.
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This Dark Night
Deborah Lutz
Published 2026
352 pages
Let the Poets Govern
Camonghne Felix
Published 2026
192 pages
William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
Philip Hoare
Published 2026
453 pages
The Bright Edges of the World
Garrett Peck
Published 2026
256 pages
James Joyce
Frank Callanan
Published 2026
944 pages
Rome's Visceral Reactions
Caitlin Hines
Published 2026
246 pages
Mark Twain Remembered
Published 2026
272 pages
Tell Others Storytelling for a World in Turmoil
Kim Echlin
Published 2026
224 pages
Alan Ross Biography Hb
David Crane
Published 2026
Baudelaire's Objects
Joseph Acquisto
Published 2026
224 pages
Aristophanes
Erin K. Moodie
Published 2026
160 pages
Reading As Method
Oliver Simons, Professor of Germanic Languages Oliver Simons
Published 2026
156 pages
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater
Kate Hext
Published 2026
276 pages
Writing During the Apocalypse
Ed Simon
Published 2026
208 pages
Hip-Hop and Comics
Sheena C. Howard, Justin D. Burton, Brea M. Heidelberg, Patrick A. Reed, Spenser Nellis
Published 2026
224 pages
The Poems of Catullus A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Published 2026
256 pages
Late Theory
Phillip E. Wegner
Published 2026
304 pages
The Bible's Influence on Western Civilization
Jerry Pattengale, Timothy Dalrymple
Published 2026
336 pages
Who's Allowed to Protest?
Bruce Robbins
Published 2026
192 pages
Women Journalists in the Brazilian Mainstream Press The Case of O País (1884-1912)
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Tania Regina de Luca
Published 2026
208 pages
Studies in Greek Literature
P. E. Easterling
Published 2026
630 pages
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume VII Pacuvius. Minor Tragic Poets. Unidentified Dramatists
Pacuvius
Published 2026
656 pages
Sugarcoated Ethics Children's Literature and Atlantic Enslavement
Courtney Weikle-Mills
Published 2026
320 pages