• Literary Criticism

    Deep Dive

    Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

    By Emily Temple  April 5, 2018
    Profile

    Meg Wolitzer: “What Does it Mean to Be a Woman in Power?”

    By Kaylen Ralph  April 5, 2018
    Essay

    When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

    By Emily Temple  April 4, 2018
    Op-Ed

    The Year in Trump Novel Pitches: An Agent’s Lament

    By Erik Hane  March 30, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Moderata Fonte’s Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

    By Virginia Cox  March 27, 2018
    Criticism

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What Decolonizing the Mind Means Today

    By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  March 23, 2018
    Art

    Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

    By J. Mae Barizo  March 23, 2018
    Essay

    Stop Looking for One War Story to Make Sense of All Wars

    By Matt Young  March 22, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Why Do We Turn to Stories in the Midst of a Disaster?

    By Madeleine Wattenbarger  March 21, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Four Theories Toward the Timeless Brilliance of Infinite Jest

    By Tom Bissell  March 21, 2018
    Criticism

    Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War

    By Philip Metres  March 20, 2018
    Criticism

    On Finding a Hero in Alison Bechdel

    By Genevieve Hudson  March 20, 2018
    Close Reading

    Does The Virgin Suicides Hold Up 25 Years Later?

    By Emily Temple  March 19, 2018
    Feature

    Is It Worth 1,000 Words? Mark Sarvas on Writing Art in Fiction

    By Mark Sarvas  March 14, 2018
    Essay

    Why Every Progressive Should Read The Good Soldier Švejk

    By Paul Goldberg  March 9, 2018
    Criticism

    Curtis White: There’s No Such Thing as Postmodernism

    By Curtis White  March 9, 2018
    Criticism

    The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

    By Ismail Kadare  February 26, 2018
    Criticism

    Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

    By Hannah Arendt  February 21, 2018
    Excerpts

    Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski’s Life’s Work

    By Jenny Erpenbeck  February 15, 2018
    Conversations

    How Do You Write One of Humanity’s Most Intimate Moments?

    By Brian Turner  February 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

    By Marilyn Yalom  February 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Very Contemporary Art of Flash Fiction

    By John Dufresne  February 13, 2018
    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
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