Webwise: June 2019

Book-rich places that Selena has dis­covered on the web.

Well, not that web!

SurLaLune:

Sur­La­Lune is a page ded­ic­ated to fairy tales and folk tales. It con­sists of a massive folk­lore data­base where each fairy tale gets an­nota­tions, a his­tor­ical evol­u­tion of the fairy tale, il­lus­tra­tions made for it, con­tem­por­ary books that use a par­tic­u­lar­ity present in the fairy tale and tales from other cul­tures that rep­res­ent vari­ations of it. Sur­La­Lune is a highly doc­u­mented web­site and a pleas­ant place to spend qual­ity time. 

Literary Hub:

Lit­er­ary Hub con­tains a great num­ber of art­icles ded­ic­ated for fic­tion, po­etry, writers, cri­ti­cism or read­ing lists of any kind (ex. Scent and Sens­ib­il­ity: 5 Ol­fact­ory Nov­els).

The Paris Review:

The Paris Re­view is a magazine ded­ic­ated for lit­er­at­ure. It is fo­cused on writ­ing, art and fam­ous artists. 

The New Yorker – Books & Fiction:

The New Yorker (Book & Fic­tion sec­tion) in­cludes news and stor­ies about the lit­er­ary world. 

The Los Angeles Review of Books:

The Los Angeles Re­view of Books is a lit­er­ary magazine ded­ic­ated to Art. It con­sists of re­views, es­says, in­ter­views, and many more. Read­ers can also fil­ter art­icles ac­cord­ing to their in­terests by ac­cess­ing Sec­tions.

BookRiot:

BookRiot is a lit­er­ary page that fo­cuses on books: news about books, com­ment­ar­ies on books, re­com­mend­a­tions of books and many other things re­lated to books.

3:AM Magazine:

The 3:AM Magazine is a bril­liant page ded­ic­ated for book lov­ers. It con­sists of: re­views, in­ter­views, es­says, as well as po­etry and fic­tion-re­lated con­tent. What is amaz­ing about it is that they of­fer the pos­sib­il­ity for read­ers to ac­cess ex­cerpts of vari­ous con­tem­por­ary nov­els and get up­dated with the latest in­nov­a­tions in poetry. 

Granta:

Granta is a lit­er­ary journal fo­cused on mak­ing old and new artists known in the con­tem­por­ary world of art. 

The American Reader:

The Amer­ican Reader is a lit­er­ary journal fo­cused on lit­er­at­ure and cri­ti­cism. Some of the lit­er­ary works are avail­able on­line, but their magazine is­sues are only avail­able if purchased. 

Literariness – Literary Theory and Criticism:

Lit­er­ar­i­ness is a great in­dex for crit­ical ana­lyses on a large num­ber of lit­er­ary works. It is a well-struc­tured web­site, sup­por­ted by great doc­u­ment­a­tion. It also provides read­ers with Au­dio Notes, Au­dio Lec­tures and Au­dio Poetry.

Literary History:

Lit­er­ary His­tory is a well-doc­u­mented page ded­ic­ated to cri­ti­cism fo­cused more on Brit­ish and Amer­ican writers. 

Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory:

The Fem­in­ist Lit­er­ary Cri­ti­cism and The­ory is a page mainly con­sist­ing of bib­li­o­graph­ical sources and fo­cus­ing on present­ing and mak­ing read­ers aware of fem­in­ist writers.

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory:

As men­tioned in the dis­claimer, this page is strictly cre­ated to make an in­tro­duc­tion to vari­ous con­cepts in literature. 

Modern American Poetry:

This page is ded­ic­ated to Amer­ican po­etry and cri­ti­cism on poetry. 

The Millions:

The Mil­lions is a web­site con­tain­ing art­icles that ap­proach ana­lyses of texts, book re­com­mend­a­tions or vari­ous top­ics in Art.