• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 13, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

    By David L. Ulin  May 13, 2016
    Essay

    Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

    By Daniel Torday  May 12, 2016
    Essay

    The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 12, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

    By Eileen Pollack  May 10, 2016
    Essay

    Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

    By Peter Constantine  May 9, 2016
    Essay

    No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving

    By Hannah Gersen  May 6, 2016
    Essay

    On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

    By Jordan Rosenfeld  May 6, 2016
    Essay

    Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

    By Rivka Galchen  May 6, 2016
    Essay

    How Judy Blume Changed My Life

    By Lily King  May 4, 2016
    Essay

    Writers, The Loneliest Artists of All

    By Michele Filgate  May 4, 2016
    Close Reading

    On Don DeLillo’s Deep Italian-American Roots

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 3, 2016
    Feature

    Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

    By Heller McAlpin  April 29, 2016
    Essay

    How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

    By Emily Gray Tedrowe  April 28, 2016
    Essay

    Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 28, 2016
    Essay

    The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

    By Laura Barnett  April 28, 2016
    Close Reading

    How Sylvia Plath’s Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

    By Nathan Smith  April 26, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody’s Little Sister

    By Juliane Okot Bitek  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn’t Even Like Sex

    By Jillian Keenan  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

    By Andrew Hartley  April 25, 2016
    Essay

    What Was Shakespeare’s Central Philosophy?

    By Ed Simon  April 25, 2016
    Close Reading

    If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

    By Lyndsay Faye  April 21, 2016
    Criticism

    Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

    By Bridget Read  April 21, 2016
    Essay

    On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

    By Michael Peck  April 21, 2016
    Criticism

    Searching for Salvation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 21, 2016
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