• Literary Criticism

    Craft and Criticism

    Stephen King: Master of Almost All the Genres Except “Literary”

    By Douglas E. Cowan  June 13, 2018
    Criticism

    A Conflicted Feminist Revenge Fantasy for the #MeToo Era

    By Eric Thurm  June 5, 2018
    Criticism

    Why is Bad Behavior So Good?

    By Emily Temple  June 4, 2018
    Deep Dive

    The Maternal, Feminist Utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    By Michael Robertson  June 4, 2018
    Essay

    The Nightmarish Dream Logic of Bruno Schulz

    By Joe Fletcher  June 1, 2018
    Deep Dive

    When Walt Whitman’s Poems Were Rejected For Being Too Timely

    By Emily Temple  May 31, 2018
    Criticism

    Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

    By Robert Gottlieb  May 31, 2018
    Essay

    Is This the Year Dag Solstad Becomes a Household Name?

    By Veronica Esposito  May 30, 2018
    Criticism

    David Hayden: “Men Still Too Often See Their Writing as the Canon”

    By David Hayden  May 25, 2018
    Criticism

    Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll, and Mystical Poets

    By Literary Hub  May 23, 2018
    Expert opinion

    The 12 Best Sherlock Holmes Stories, According to Arthur Conan Doyle

    By Emily Temple  May 22, 2018
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of True Grit‘s Perfect First Paragraph

    By Emily Temple  May 18, 2018
    Criticism

    The Truth of Ray Bradbury’s Prophetic Vision

    By Michael Moorcock  May 18, 2018
    Criticism

    The Power of W. G. Sebald’s Small Silences

    By Nathan Goldman  May 18, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Rereading Little Women in its 150th Anniversary Year

    By Rebecca Foster  May 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Soseki’s Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

    By John Nathan  May 16, 2018
    Criticism

    George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

    By George Saunders  May 15, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Paul Bowles: ‘Here’s My Message. Everything Gets Worse’

    By Paul Theroux  May 11, 2018
    Criticism

    Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

    By Lara Feigel  May 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

    By Tobias Carroll  May 10, 2018
    Essay

    What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

    By Julia Fine  May 8, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Data-Driven Amazon Bookstores Can’t Compete with Indies

    By Antón Barba-Kay  May 4, 2018
    Deep Dive

    How to Suppress Women’s Writing: “She Only Wrote One Good Book.”

    By Joanna Russ  May 3, 2018
    Criticism

    The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

    By Jennifer Schaffer  May 2, 2018
    Essay

    On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 30, 2018
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