• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written

    By Emily Temple  July 25, 2018
    Essay

    In Praise of “Plain” Heroines: Why Mary is my Favorite Bennet Sister

    By Katherine J. Chen  July 23, 2018
    Excerpts

    Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

    By Boris Fishman  July 23, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

    By John Domini  July 23, 2018
    Deep Dive

    On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories

    By John Mariani  July 20, 2018
    Criticism

    The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer’s Pantheon

    By Eugene Thacker  July 19, 2018
    Deep Dive

    My Book of Men: On the Poetry of Survival

    By Liz Bowen  July 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Can We Salvage of Objectivity?

    By Michiko Kakutani  July 17, 2018
    Feature

    The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

    By Emily Temple  July 16, 2018
    Criticism

    Watching The Handmaid’s Tale While Transitioning

    By Veronica Esposito  July 16, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

    By Diana Gabaldon  July 16, 2018
    Criticism

    How Can Fiction Predict a Future That’s Already Happening?

    By Andromeda Romano-Lax  July 13, 2018
    Essay

    Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

    By Andrew Martin  July 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Not Everyone Loves Proust

    By Emily Temple  July 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything

    By Lyn Hejinian  July 5, 2018
    Criticism

    Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?

    By Emily Temple  July 2, 2018
    Awards

    Will a Woman Writer Win Italy’s Strega Prize This Year?

    By Jeanne Bonner  July 2, 2018
    Essay

    Why James Baldwin Went to the South and What It Meant to Him

    By Ed Pavlić  June 29, 2018
    Criticism

    The Enduring Enigma of Véra Nabokov

    By Miranda Popkey  June 28, 2018
    Criticism

    Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

    By Kristen Martin  June 27, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Richard Flanagan on Social Media and the Death of a Private Life

    By Richard Flanagan  June 21, 2018
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the ‘Censored’ Passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray

    By Emily Temple  June 20, 2018
    Close Reading

    Djuna Barnes: “The Most Famous Unknown of the Century!”

    By Ruth Joffre  June 18, 2018
    Criticism

    Havoc: A Cynical (and Personal) Portrayal of Alcoholism

    By Morten Høi Jensen  June 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    Penelope Lively on Virginia Woolf: Serious Gardener?

    By Penelope Lively  June 14, 2018
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