• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It’s Not Universal

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Death Became Big Business in America

    By Caitlin Doughty  October 4, 2017
    History

    A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

    By Nichole LeFebvre  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    The Prettiest Way to Die

    By Christina Newland  October 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Soul

    By Alejandro Nava  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

    By Hayley Singer  October 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Looking at the World Through My Character’s Eyes

    By Alison Moore  September 29, 2017
    Deep Dive

    My Own Personal Herakles

    By Renée Branum  September 29, 2017
    Criticism

    We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 29, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

    By Adrian McKinty  September 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

    By Scott Spencer  September 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Marianne Moore’s Sexist Reception

    By Evan Kindley  September 27, 2017
    Close Reading

    We Can’t Ignore H.P. Lovecraft’s White Supremacy

    By Wes House  September 26, 2017
    Criticism

    Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

    By Arvind Dilawar  September 22, 2017
    Deep Dive

    More than the Beauty or the Heroine

    By Zan Romanoff  September 20, 2017
    Criticism

    Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals

    By Carina del Valle Schorske  September 19, 2017
    Criticism

    How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

    By Alex Gilvarry  September 11, 2017
    Did you know?

    Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

    By Michael Lynn Crews  September 6, 2017
    Poets

    90 Lines For John Ashbery’s 90th Birthday

    By Literary Hub  September 5, 2017
    Essay

    A Formidable Writer, An Exceptional Man: Philip Roth on Richard Stern

    By Philip Roth  September 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why We Keep Waiting for Godot

    By Shannon Reed  August 30, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Reading Jane Eyre While Black

    By Tyrese L. Coleman  August 28, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Boxing is Always in Crisis: On Joyce Carol Oates, Floyd Mayweather, and Conor McGregor

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 25, 2017
    Essay

    Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy

    By Ayobami Adebayo  August 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Dark, Wondrous Optimism of Ray Bradbury

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 22, 2017
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