• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    In Defense of Bad Best Friends

    By Heather Wells Peterson  October 19, 2016
    Criticism

    How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient

    By Tobias Carroll  October 18, 2016
    Criticism

    How Patricia Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley Rises from Genre to Myth

    By James Lasdun  October 18, 2016
    Essay

    Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

    By Derek Palacio  October 17, 2016
    Design

    In Praise of the Illustrated Book

    By Buzz Poole  October 17, 2016
    Criticism

    How to Keep Out Death: On the Literature of Crowds

    By Dustin Illingworth  October 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    On Bob Dylan’s Literary Influences

    By Mark Polizzotti  October 14, 2016
    Feature

    The Banality of Donald Trump

    By Rafia Zakaria  October 14, 2016
    Biography

    So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

    By Lisa Levy  October 13, 2016
    Archives

    Jonathan Lethem on the Lost Conversations of Ross Macdonald

    By Kevin Avery  October 13, 2016
    Feature

    Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

    By Bridget Read  October 13, 2016
    Politics

    It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly’s Black Girl Poetry

    By Nikky Finney  October 13, 2016
    Essay

    The Literature of Creepy Clowns

    By Tobias Carroll  October 7, 2016
    Criticism

    How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

    By Adam Weiner  October 6, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Why Every American Should Read The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 5, 2016
    Feature

    Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

    By Eric Thurm  October 5, 2016
    Essay

    Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

    By David L. Ulin  October 3, 2016
    Close Reading

    The Haunting of Shirley Jackson

    By Laura Miller  September 28, 2016
    Essay

    On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

    By Nathan Goldman  September 27, 2016
    Essay

    The Secret to Faking Your Own Death

    By Elizabeth Greenwood  September 26, 2016
    Close Reading

    How Peyton Place Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

    By Nathan Smith  September 26, 2016
    Close Reading

    Edith Wharton’s Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

    By Colette Shade  September 22, 2016
    Essay

    What About a Woman’s Right to Idleness?

    By Emily Harnett  September 21, 2016
    Essay

    Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

    By Lev Grossman  September 20, 2016
    Criticism

    Is “Show Don’t Tell” a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

    By Namrata Poddar  September 20, 2016
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