• Literary Criticism

    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
    Essay

    My Life in a Buddhist Cult with “The Master”

    By Kirstin Allio  April 21, 2016
    News and Culture

    Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part Two

    By Literary Hub  April 20, 2016
    Film

    Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part One

    By Literary Hub  April 19, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Was Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Really About Donald Trump?

    By Jay Parini  April 18, 2016
    Excerpts

    Can We Only Know Ourselves Through Another?

    By Sallie Tisdale  April 15, 2016
    Essay

    Jon Ronson: In Search of the Genuinely New

    By Charles Arrowsmith  April 14, 2016
    Essay

    Memories of a Killing, Visions of a Haunting

    By Scott Cheshire  April 6, 2016
    Criticism

    On Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

    By Bridget Read  April 5, 2016
    Poets

    Kate Atkinson on “Adelstrop”

    By Kate Akinson  April 5, 2016
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