• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

    By J.W. McCormack  October 30, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Radical Moralist: On Lionel Trilling’s Literary Criticism

    By Adam Kirsch  October 30, 2018
    Criticism

    Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

    By César Aira  October 29, 2018
    Essay

    In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

    By Laird Hunt  October 29, 2018
    Essay

    The Year I Stopped Reading White People

    By Jerome Blanco  October 24, 2018
    Essay

    The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath

    By Paul Alexander  October 23, 2018
    Archives

    The Vulnerable Private Writings of Ernest Hemingway

    By Sandra Spanier  October 23, 2018
    Essay

    Amy Bloom on the Legacy of Thom Jones

    By Amy Bloom  October 18, 2018
    Feature

    Why America’s Best Political Novelist Is Required Reading in 2018

    By Susan Zakin  October 17, 2018
    Essay

    Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

    By Viv Groskop  October 16, 2018
    Essay

    Passing for White: A Literary History

    By Darryl Pinckney  October 15, 2018
    Essay

    On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

    By André Naffis-Sahely  October 12, 2018
    Essay

    The Beats’ Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired On the Road

    By David L. Ulin  October 5, 2018
    Essay

    When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

    By Michael Donkor  October 5, 2018
    Close Reading

    The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

    By Mikaella Clements  October 4, 2018
    Advice

    The Avid Reader: Helen Simpson on Anton Chekhov’s “Oysters”

    By Helen Simpson  October 4, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Dry-Eyed Mourning of Gary Indiana

    By Sarah Nicole Prickett  October 4, 2018
    Essay

    Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

    By Roxane Gay  October 3, 2018
    Art

    How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

    By Mary Gabriel  October 2, 2018
    Profile

    The Gordon Lish Lineage of Jewish American Writing

    By Josh Lambert  September 25, 2018
    Excerpts

    Nietzsche, Adorno, and a Horse Walk Into a Valley…

    By John Kaag  September 25, 2018
    Essay

    Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

    By Tobias Carroll  September 24, 2018
    Essay

    Our Love of True Stories Has Destroyed Our Sense of Truth

    By Rebecca Wolff  September 19, 2018
    Essay

    Please Stop Talking About the “Rise” of African Science Fiction

    By Tade Thompson  September 19, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Kafka’s Last Wish, Brod’s First Betrayal

    By Benjamin Balint  September 18, 2018
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