• Literary Criticism

    Deep Dive

    The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

    By Vincent Scarpa  April 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Is Your Name Your Destiny?

    By Catherine Buni  April 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn’t Love Me Back

    By Stephanie Powell Watts  April 3, 2017
    Op-Ed

    If Fiction Changes the World, It’s Going to Be YA

    By Emily Temple  March 23, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

    By Victoria Newton Ford  March 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

    By Dion Kagan  March 15, 2017
    Criticism

    When Femininity is Code for Feelings

    By Lynn Steger Strong  March 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

    By Rebecca Solnit  March 8, 2017
    Politics

    Trump in a Toga? On the Lessons (or Lack Therof) in Historical Fiction

    By Veronica Esposito  March 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Sinclair Lewis, American Prophet

    By J. M. Henderson  March 6, 2017
    Poets

    The Adolescent Charm of Bad Celebrity Poetry

    By Philippa Snow  March 6, 2017
    Craft and Criticism

    In Praise of Bossy Big Sisters

    By Erika W. Smith  March 3, 2017
    Close Reading

    Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

    By Anna Journey  March 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 27, 2017
    In Memoriam

    The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Anjali Enjeti  February 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How Mary Miller’s Stories Demystify the White Working Class

    By Alex Gallo-Brown  February 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

    By Arvind Dilawar  February 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

    By Kristen Martin  February 16, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Daniel Handler on the Best Writer You Don’t Know: Rachel Ingalls

    By Daniel Handler  February 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Everything I Know About Sex I Learned From Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By April Smith  February 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How the Powerful Fear Art: Lessons from John Berger

    By Veronica Esposito  February 13, 2017
    History

    Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  February 9, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Behind the Dedications: James Baldwin

    By Arvind Dilawar  February 8, 2017
    Politics

    How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

    By Tobias Carroll  February 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story

    By Emily Harnett  February 6, 2017
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