• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Every Publication is a Kind of Death

    By Patrick Nathan  February 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

    By Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley  February 9, 2018
    Criticism

    Dystopia For Sale: How a Commercialized Genre Lost its Teeth

    By Brady Gerber  February 8, 2018
    Essay

    Will Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

    By Will Self  February 7, 2018
    Feature

    ‘Twitter Feminists’ to Katie Roiphe: This Essay is Not Very Good

    By Emily Temple  February 5, 2018
    Criticism

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses

    By Emily Temple  February 2, 2018
    Criticism

    Ulysses: Good or Bad?

    By Emily Temple  February 2, 2018
    Essay

    Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

    By Tim Wirkus  January 31, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won’t Die

    By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  January 26, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  January 24, 2018
    Criticism

    Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

    By Philip Metres  January 23, 2018
    Criticism

    Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

    By M. C. Mah  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

    By Veronica Esposito  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    How to Read Caves

    By Susan Harlan  January 19, 2018
    Criticism

    The Literature of Bad Sex

    By Hermione Hoby  January 18, 2018
    Essay

    Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix

    By Lincoln Michel  January 12, 2018
    Essay

    Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

    By Emily Temple  January 9, 2018
    Feature

    Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

    By Danielle Jackson  January 3, 2018
    Essay

    J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

    By J.M. Coetzee  January 2, 2018
    Essay

    Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

    By Maud Casey  January 2, 2018
    Craft and Criticism

    Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

    By Ali Smith  December 28, 2017
    Essay

    Is Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas a Work of Genius?

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  December 20, 2017
    Essay

    The Privilege of Plotlessness

    By Lynn Steger Strong  December 18, 2017
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2017
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