• Literary Criticism

    Literary History

    The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

    By Jack Parlett  June 25, 2019
    First Languages

    The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

    By Sadiqa de Meijer  June 25, 2019
    Criticism

    Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal’s Long Career

    By Catherine Lacey  June 25, 2019
    Society

    The Many Ways We Create the ‘Other’

    By Louise Aronson  June 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

    By Annie Proulx  June 24, 2019
    Corporate America

    On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

    By Johanna Berkman  June 24, 2019
    Tributes

    The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

    By Emily Temple  June 21, 2019
    Asian American Literature

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  June 21, 2019
    Anthologies

    On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

    By Lucy Caldwell  June 21, 2019
    Close Reading

    The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

    By Danielle Dutton  June 21, 2019
    Existentialism

    The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction

    By André Naffis-Sahely  June 21, 2019
    Literary History

    The Poet and the Monk:
    An Anne Sexton Love Story

    By Nick Ripatrazone  June 20, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray

    By Emily Temple  June 20, 2019
    Criticism

    The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy

    By Antonia Pont  June 20, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    “The Stonewall Revolution is Still Happening”

    By Corinne Segal  June 19, 2019
    Rejection

    “Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

    By Emily Temple  June 19, 2019
    News and Culture

    On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

    By Teresa Rose Carmody  June 19, 2019
    Literary Nemeses

    What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

    By Jen Corrigan  June 18, 2019
    Adaptations

    How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

    By Rebecca Renner  June 18, 2019
    Writing Life

    What Anne Sexton Taught Me About… Self-Promotion

    By Joy Lanzendorfer  June 18, 2019
    Kafka

    “Franz Kafka” the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

    By Renée Reizman  June 18, 2019
    Nigerian Literature

    How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

    By Nnamdi Ehirim  June 18, 2019
    Summer reading

    20 “Perfect Summer Books” for This and Every Year

    By Emily Temple  June 17, 2019
    On Death

    Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

    By John James  June 14, 2019
    Animals

    How to Eulogize an Animal

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 12, 2019
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