• Literary Criticism

    The Robots

    The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

    By Dennis Tang  January 27, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

    By Jonathan Reiber  January 27, 2020
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

    By John M. Bowers  January 27, 2020
    WWII

    Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

    By Patrick Modiano  January 27, 2020
    Immigration

    Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

    By Javier Zamora  January 24, 2020
    On Death

    What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

    By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
    Criticism

    Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

    By Phillipa K. Chong  January 23, 2020
    Nigerian Culture

    Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

    By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
    Climate Change

    Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires

    By Jennifer Mills  January 22, 2020
    The History of Reading

    Rediscovering the Lost Power
    of Reading Aloud

    By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 22, 2020
    Language

    Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing
    in Yiddish

    By Isaac Bashevis Singer  January 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

    By Adam Nicolson  January 21, 2020
    Literary History

    The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

    By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    On Contemporary Minimalism’s Maximal Lies

    By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

    By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
    In Conversation

    Talking Poetry and Porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village Bar

    By Brian Gresko  January 16, 2020
    In Translation

    The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

    By Michael Nylan  January 16, 2020
    American Identity

    John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

    By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
    Criticism

    James Wood: What is at Stake When We Write Literary Criticism?

    By James Wood  January 15, 2020
    Economics

    On the Birth of the Economist Class and the Untaming of Corporations

    By Nicholas Shaxson  January 15, 2020
    Criticism

    Considering Garth Greenwell’s Revolutionary Erotics

    By Ben Miller  January 15, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Finding the Literature I Needed Everywhere But University

    By Jessica Andrews  January 15, 2020
    American Classics

    How Edith Wharton’s Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

    By Jennifer Egan  January 14, 2020
    Adaptations

    Merve Emre: When Elena Ferrante is Your Editor

    By Merve Emre  January 14, 2020
    Literary History

    My Novel Centered on the Eliot-Hale Letters. Now, We Can Read Them

    By Martha Cooley  January 14, 2020
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