• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

    By Tom Lutz  August 30, 2019
    Poetry

    The Sealey Challenge: An Expansive Way of Reading Poetry

    By Laura Buccieri  August 30, 2019
    The West

    John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961

    By John Williams  August 29, 2019
    Capitalism

    What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

    By Terrence Holt  August 29, 2019
    Literary History

    The Fall and Rise of William Stoner

    By Steve Almond  August 29, 2019
    Criticism

    My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

    By Marcos Gonsalez  August 29, 2019
    Language

    On the Politics of Italics

    By Jumoke Verissimo  August 28, 2019
    Criticism

    How to Review a Novel

    By Mary-Kay Wilmers  August 27, 2019
    Education

    In Praise of the High School English Teacher

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 27, 2019
    Guns

    Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

    By Chuck Augello  August 26, 2019
    Grief

    Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

    By Kelsey Ronan  August 26, 2019
    American Classics

    Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

    By Jenny Zhang  August 23, 2019
    Art Criticism

    Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

    By Dorothy Parker  August 22, 2019
    Empire

    Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

    By Luke Harding  August 22, 2019
    Poetry

    J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry

    By J. M. G. Le Clézio  August 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

    By Lara Vapnyar  August 22, 2019
    Historical Fiction

    Reading in a Boom Time of Biographical Fiction

    By Jay Parini  August 21, 2019
    Literary History

    Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

    By Boze Herrington  August 21, 2019
    Education

    Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 20, 2019
    Sex

    The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

    By Nicola Waldron  August 20, 2019
    Masters In Conversation

    Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
    Influences

    Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

    By Rajia Hassib  August 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Dear Yusef Komunyakaa:
    A Letter From Gregory Pardlo

    By Gregory Pardlo  August 19, 2019
    Fascism

    Edoardo Albinati on Masculinity, Italy, and Fascism

    By Francesco Pacifico  August 19, 2019
    Criticism

    In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

    By Kanako Nishi  August 19, 2019
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