• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    Falconry as therapy

    By Helen Macdonald  April 24, 2015
    Essay

    On the Subject of my Suicide

    By Norah Vincent  April 23, 2015
    Criticism

    When Writers Attack

    By Jonathan Gottschall  April 23, 2015
    Criticism

    We Have This Device. It’s Called a Book.

    By Ryan Britt  April 21, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Amiri Baraka, Politics, and Tough Love

    By Evie Shockley  April 20, 2015
    Essay

    All Elders be Eloquence, or One Way to Pay Dem You Owe

    By Thomas Sayers Ellis  April 20, 2015
    Close Reading

    What He left us

    By Danez Smith  April 20, 2015
    Novelists

    From Potter to Tartt to Ferrante

    By Alexander Chee  April 16, 2015
    Conversation

    On Freaks, Geeks, and 9/11

    By Brian Gresko  April 16, 2015
    Criticism

    What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can’t

    By Tracy K. Smith  April 16, 2015
    Essay

    One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 16, 2015
    Op-Ed

    In Defense of the Poet Laureate

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 14, 2015
    Criticism

    Where Do We Go from Here?: The Future of Fiction

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 10, 2015
    Criticism

    On Whiteness and The Racial Imaginary

    By Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda  April 9, 2015
    Close Reading

    The Nearest Thing To Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 8, 2015
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