• Literary Criticism

    Deep Dive

    The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

    By Buzz Poole  May 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    Americans in Search of Utopia

    By Betsy Hartmann  May 22, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Why We Do Need Another Adaptation of Little Women

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Queering the “I”: On First-Person LGBTQ Narratives

    By Ilana Masad  May 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

    By Philippa Snow  May 18, 2017
    Criticism

    In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More…

    By Literary Hub  May 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Price Tag of Being a Woman

    By Melynda Fuller  May 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

    By Aaron Bady  May 15, 2017
    Politics

    The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 10, 2017
    What to Read

    On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

    By Veronica Esposito  May 9, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 3, 2017
    Close Reading

    What I’d Die for You Tells Us About Fitzgerald’s Troubled Final Years

    By Cody Delistraty  May 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

    By Helena Kelly  May 3, 2017
    Politics

    The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

    By Amanda Arnold  May 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2017
    Racism

    How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

    By Harmony Holiday  April 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  April 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

    By Adam Kirsch  April 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

    By Brian Francis Slattery  April 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

    By Emily Harnett  April 19, 2017
    Politics

    A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

    By Margot Singer  April 18, 2017
    Poets

    Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

    By Louise Gluck  April 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Best Characters Were Dead People

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 17, 2017
    Racism

    Race is the Original American Fiction

    By Andrew Mitchell Davenport  April 13, 2017
    Op-Ed

    In Defense of Worldbuilding

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2017
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