• Literary Criticism

    New in Nonfiction

    Marriage Isn’t the Only Plot for Love

    By Kristen Martin  February 11, 2019
    Deep Dive

    What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 8, 2019
    Feature

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

    By Emily Temple  February 8, 2019
    Excerpts

    On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

    By William C. Carter  February 7, 2019
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 5, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

    By Tobias Carroll  February 1, 2019
    Essay

    On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 30, 2019
    Deep Dive

    When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 28, 2019
    Essay

    Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

    By Daisy Johnson  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

    By Katharine Smyth  January 25, 2019
    Close Reading

    Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

    By Emily Van Duyne  January 24, 2019
    Close Reading

    On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

    By Jeanna Kadlec  January 23, 2019
    Essay

    What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  January 22, 2019
    Excerpts

    David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World

    By David Treuer  January 22, 2019
    Feature

    John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer

    By Tyler Malone  January 17, 2019
    Deep Dive

    How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

    By Tessa Hadley  January 16, 2019
    Deep Dive

    This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

    By Rebecca Romney  January 15, 2019
    Essay

    A Brief History of Children’s Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

    By Jennifer Traig  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

    By Rosie Haward  January 14, 2019
    Close Reading

    An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy’s Complaint

    By Emily Temple  January 11, 2019
    Feature

    How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

    By Leslie Pariseau  January 10, 2019
    Excerpts

    An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

    By Emily Noyes Vanderpoel  January 10, 2019
    Essay

    Why Does Women’s Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

    By Blythe Roberson  January 10, 2019
    Feature

    The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

    By Taylor Lannamann  January 9, 2019
    Excerpts

    Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

    By Carol Clark  January 8, 2019
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