r/literature

68K archived posts · Apr 2008 – Sep 2026

literature

r/literature

Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome. We are not /r/books: please do not use this sub to seek book recommendations or homework help.

Created Apr 1, 2008

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Welcome to r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome.

We are not r/books: please do not use this sub to seek book recommendations or homework help.

##Rules

1. Required in all posts:

- - Relevance: Submissions must relate to literature, literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, or literary news.

- - Analysis: Discussion submissions must include the original poster's own analysis in the body of the post.

- - Content: Do not submit posts that contain questions and no other content.

2. No homework or curriculum posts

Do not request help on homework assignments (students) or curriculum content (teachers). This includes posting surveys.

3. No requests for book recommendations

This includes editions and translations.

4. No advertising or self-promotion

Do not submit any form of advertising or self-promotion. This includes written work, social media, medium, youtube, apps, or any other channel/material you are associated with.

5. No pics or memes

Do not submit purely image links.

6. No writing advice

We are not an authorship or writing sub. Please do not seek feedback or instruction on your writing.

7. No silly videos

Do not submit videos vaguely related to literature.

8. No spoilers

Spoilers must be marked by an alert and obscured with Reddit editor's spoiler masking system.

Sister Subreddits

r/literatures

r/AskLiteraryStudies

r/badliterarystudies