• Literary Criticism

    Craft and Criticism

    On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

    By Lizzy Saxe  January 7, 2019
    Essay

    Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 3, 2019
    Technology

    Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

    By Samantha Edmonds  January 3, 2019
    Close Reading

    On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

    By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst  December 20, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Happened to the Original Version of The Waste Land?

    By Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue  December 19, 2018
    Conversations

    Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

    By Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja  December 19, 2018
    Criticism

    Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

    By Devoney Looser  December 17, 2018
    Deep Dive

    On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 13, 2018
    Excerpts

    Oliverio Girondo’s Absurd Cosmopolitan World

    By Harris Feinsod and Rachel Galvin  December 13, 2018
    Criticism

    Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

    By James Schamus  December 12, 2018
    Deep Dive

    On James Baldwin’s Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

    By Ed Pavlić  December 10, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

    By Norma Cole  December 7, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Of Willa Cather’s Lasting Love For the Frontier

    By Catherine Pond  December 7, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Looking for God in the Writing of Denis Johnson

    By Aaron Thier  December 5, 2018
    Deep Dive

    What Was Virginia Woolf Looking for in the Night Sky?

    By Josh Wilbur  December 4, 2018
    Close Reading

    A Close-Reading of The Talented Mr. Ripley as Coming of Age Story

    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2018
    Essay

    How to Be an African Travel Writer in Africa?

    By Emmanuel Iduma  November 29, 2018
    Close Reading

    The Avid Reader: Helen Schulman on As I Lay Dying

    By Helen Schulman  November 29, 2018
    Essay

    Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

    By Inger Christensen  November 27, 2018
    Criticism

    Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

    By Joshua Sperling  November 26, 2018
    Close Reading

    Revisiting the Genius of Middlemarch

    By John Mullan  November 21, 2018
    Essay

    Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children’s Books as ‘Too Political’

    By Erinn Salge  November 21, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was Sula

    By Gwen Aviles  November 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye

    By Jack Zipes and Édouard Laboulaye  November 19, 2018
    Biography

    How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

    By Zachary Leader  November 15, 2018
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