• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    Was Jane Eyre Written as a Secret Love Letter?

    By John Pfordresher  June 26, 2017
    Close Reading

    On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

    By Brian Dillon  June 21, 2017
    Criticism

    To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

    By Veronica Esposito  June 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

    By Matthew Carr  June 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Grief, Joan Didion’s Move From Fiction to Memoir

    By David L. Ulin  June 15, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Wallace Shawn: How Should a Person Be?

    By Wallace Shawn  June 13, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror

    By Rebecca Harkins-Cross  June 8, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Is Richard Brautigan’s Most Famous Novel a Minor Masterpiece or Naive Relic?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  June 7, 2017
    Poets

    On the Generosity of Gwendolyn Brooks, 100 Years Later

    By Matt St. John  June 7, 2017
    History

    From Penelope to Pussyhats, The Ancient Origins of Feminist Craftivism

    By Stephanie McCarter  June 7, 2017
    Criticism

    Why is One Hundred Years of Solitude Eternally Beloved?

    By Veronica Esposito  June 6, 2017
    Close Reading

    Huckleberry Kat: How Mark Twain Influenced George Herriman

    By Michael Tisserand  June 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Revisiting Jenny Diski’s Debut, Sadomasochistic Novel

    By Daphne Merkin  June 5, 2017
    Criticism

    My Fictional Nemesis: Why Thomas Hardy’s Angel Clare is the Worst

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  June 2, 2017
    Essay

    Separating Truth from Lies in the Face of Atrocity

    By Johanna Skibsrud  June 2, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

    By John Sherman  June 2, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 1, 2017
    Profile

    At a Sword Fight with a Modern-Day Swashbuckler (in a Harlem Basement)

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 1, 2017
    Criticism

    Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

    By Carol Dyhouse  June 1, 2017
    Criticism

    Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles’s First Novel

    By Chris Kraus  May 31, 2017
    Close Reading

    I Found My Family in Jesus’ Son

    By James Boice  May 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

    By Conor Higgins  May 25, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

    By Lorraine Berry  May 24, 2017
    Close Reading

    In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

    By Theodore McCombs  May 24, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

    By Veronica Esposito  May 23, 2017
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