• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    The Fine Grim Line Between Love and Stalking

    By Lisa Levy  February 17, 2016
    Criticism

    When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

    By Emily Harnett  February 17, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: Carmela Ciuraru on Colm Tóibín’s On Elizabeth Bishop

    By Carmela Ciuraru  February 17, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: David Biespiel on Frank Stanford: “Poetry Busts Guts”

    By David Biespiel  February 16, 2016
    Criticism

    30 Books in 30 Days: Mark Athitakis on Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen

    By Mark Athitakis  February 15, 2016
    Criticism

    A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

    By A. O. Scott  February 11, 2016
    Essay

    On Finding Yourself in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Nandini Balial  February 9, 2016
    Essay

    We Are At Risk of Losing Serious Readers

    By David Denby  February 8, 2016
    Essay

    Kamila Shamsie On Intizar Hussain’s Novel, Basti

    By Kamila Shamsie  February 5, 2016
    Essay

    You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

    By Matt Gallagher  February 2, 2016
    Essay

    Our Darkest American Masterpiece

    By Dustin Illingworth  January 27, 2016
    Criticism

    One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century

    By Barry Gifford  January 19, 2016
    Design

    A Brief History of Book Illustration

    By Chris Russell  January 14, 2016
    Essay

    A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 4, 2016
    Feature

    Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

    By Devoney Looser  December 23, 2015
    Criticism

    The Importance of Being Orwell

    By Christopher Hitchens  December 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Men Explain Lolita to Me

    By Rebecca Solnit  December 17, 2015
    Criticism

    Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?

    By Michael Fallon  December 15, 2015
    What to Read

    Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  December 14, 2015
    Criticism

    Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2015
    Essay

    A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

    By Matthew Neill Null  December 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Algeria After Camus

    By Namara Smith  December 8, 2015
    Essay

    How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

    By Lorraine Berry  December 4, 2015
    Criticism

    How to Read a Movie Like a Book

    By Bridget Read  December 3, 2015
    Criticism

    When Setting Trumps Character

    By Tobias Carroll  November 23, 2015
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