• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    The Unreality of Coming of Age

    By Clare Sestanovich  August 21, 2017
    Criticism

    How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

    By Tobias Carroll  August 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Reluctant Spiritual Autobiographer   

    By Adrian Shirk  August 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Pursuing the Artfully Naked “I”: The Myth-Making of Kathy Acker

    By Chris Kraus  August 18, 2017
    Craft

    Air Travel: From Majesty to Drudgery in 100 Years

    By Ellie Robins  August 18, 2017
    Poets

    What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

    By Matthew Zapruder  August 16, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a “Slave”?

    By Peggy Shinner  August 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

    By Amber Sparks  August 11, 2017
    Poets

    On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

    By Franco “Bifo” Berardi  August 11, 2017
    Close Reading

    How Much of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 10, 2017
    Feature

    Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

    By Ashley Shelby  August 9, 2017
    Essay

    Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway

    By Carole Burns  August 3, 2017
    Criticism

    There’s No Such Thing As Historical Fiction

    By Paul Lynch  July 26, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

    By Allison Gallagher  July 25, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

    By David Burr Gerrard  July 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Jane Austen’s Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

    By Rachel Dunphy  July 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

    By Lucy Scholes  July 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

    By Bill McKibben  July 12, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Who Cares What Straight People Think?

    By Brandon Taylor  July 11, 2017
    Politics

    Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

    By Veronica Esposito  July 11, 2017
    Essay

    Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Dystopia is Realism: The Future Is Here if You Look Closely

    By Christopher Brown  July 10, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro Reading “Differently”

    By Tessa Hadley  July 10, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Writing in the Shadow of a Masterpiece: On Homage

    By Margot Livesy  July 5, 2017
    Close Reading

    Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading “The Lottery” in 2017

    By Emily Temple  June 27, 2017
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