• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    An Open Letter to An Unnamed White Writer

    By P.E. Garcia  October 27, 2015
    Essay

    When a White Writer Uses a Latino Pen Name

    By AKA Jesus Angel Garcia  October 26, 2015
    Criticism

    True Confessions of an Auto-Fictionist

    By Lily Tuck  October 23, 2015
    Essay

    The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 22, 2015
    Essay

    Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

    By Jason Diamond  October 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Jane Smiley: “At the End of This Trilogy, I Wept.”

    By Jane Smiley  October 20, 2015
    Essay

    The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

    By Margaret Eby  October 20, 2015
    Essay

    Plays vs. Novels (You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next)

    By Kirk Lynn  October 19, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

    By Joel Cuthbertson  October 16, 2015
    Criticism

    Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

    By Gavin McCrea  October 15, 2015
    Essay

    Why the Printed Book Will Last Another 500 Years

    By Adam Sternbergh  October 14, 2015
    Criticism

    Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

    By Zinzi Clemmons  October 8, 2015
    Criticism

    Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

    By Kenzaburo Oe  October 8, 2015
    Criticism

    Don Quixote: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

    By Ilan Stavans  October 7, 2015
    Criticism

    When Pen Names Become People

    By Tobias Carroll  October 7, 2015
    Criticism

    Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 7, 2015
    Non-fiction

    A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 5, 2015
    Criticism

    How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression

    By Liz Windhorst Harmer  October 5, 2015
    Essay

    Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

    By Sloane Crosley  October 1, 2015
    Criticism

    The Literary Heirs of the Great Carraway

    By Robert Hahn  September 30, 2015
    Essay

    Exploring Patrick Modiano’s Paris

    By Debarati Sanyal  September 28, 2015
    Criticism

    Chinelo Okparanta on Faith, War and Being Gay in Nigeria

    By Molly Rose Quinn  September 21, 2015
    Essay

    Nom de Vie: Literary Social Media in the Age of Ferrante

    By Alexander Chee  September 17, 2015
    Criticism

    Against Lolita

    By Roxana Robinson  September 16, 2015
    Criticism

    Growing Up Carlin

    By Charles Arrowsmith  September 15, 2015
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