• Literary Criticism

    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
    News and Culture

    The Bloody Catharsis of Femme Revenge

    By Emma C. Eisenberg  December 13, 2017
    Essay

    Against the Bad Sex in Fiction Award

    By TD Storm  December 12, 2017
    Criticism

    Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster

    By Rebecca Solnit  December 12, 2017
    Criticism

    Revelations Upon Learning Kafka’s Niece Knows My Name

    By Gennady Aygi  December 12, 2017
    Feature

    Why Is the Internet in an Uproar Over a Single Short Story?

    By Emily Temple  December 11, 2017
    Op-Ed

    A Boeuf Bourguignon for the End of the World

    By Patrick Nathan  December 11, 2017
    Essay

    Why I Hate Christmas (But Love Songs About Hating Christmas)

    By Peter Blauner  December 11, 2017
    Criticism

    Reading Kobo Abe with One Eye on Edgar Allan Poe

    By Scott Beauchamp  December 11, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Heart of Darkness Revealed the Horror of Congo’s Rubber Trade

    By Maya Jasanoff  December 7, 2017
    Criticism

    Ursula K. Le Guin: Who Cares About the Great American Novel?

    By Ursula K. Le Guin  December 6, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes

    By Brandon Taylor  December 6, 2017
    Essay

    Whatever Happened to the Ecstasy of Art?

    By Jules Evans  December 6, 2017
    Criticism

    The Other Invisibles of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 1, 2017
    Feature

    The New Bad Girls of Contemporary Literature

    By Ruby Brunton  December 1, 2017
    Criticism

    As the World Ends, Has the Time for Grieving Arrived?

    By Sue Sinclair  December 1, 2017
    Feature

    Some Baffling Omissions From the NY Times’ 100 Notable Books List

    By Literary Hub  November 30, 2017
    Criticism

    Beyond “Lyric Shame”: Ben Lerner on Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson

    By Ben Lerner  November 29, 2017
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