• Literary Criticism

    Excerpts

    Building a Better Definition of Science Fiction

     July 14, 2016
    Essay

    I Found a Rare Copy of June Allison Gibbons’ Outsider Novel

    By Kelsey Osgood  July 13, 2016
    Feature

    Poetry is the Place for Joy: Or How We Praise the Mutilated World

    By Jonathan Farmer  July 13, 2016
    Feature

    How the French Reread Proust

    By Laure Murat  July 11, 2016
    Feature

    Six Reasons Why You Must Read Proust

    By Joshua Zajdman  July 11, 2016
    Feature

    Really, Here’s Why You Should Read Proust

    By William C. Carter  July 11, 2016
    Close Reading

    Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 7, 2016
    Feature

    The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of The New Yorker

    By David Remnick  July 5, 2016
    Feature

    How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism

    By Robert Stone  June 28, 2016
    Feature

    What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal

    By Zinzi Clemmons  June 27, 2016
    Feature

    Writing Must Explore Its Relation To Power

    By Robert Glück  June 27, 2016
    Feature

    How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

    By Melissa Holbrook Pierson  June 24, 2016
    Feature

    Dante, Auschwitz, and the World Beyond the Sun

    By Louis Begley  June 24, 2016
    Feature

    Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

    By Ning Ken  June 23, 2016
    Essay

    On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women

    By Dorthe Nors  June 22, 2016
    Novelists

    Svetlana Alexievich’s History of Human Feelings

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 22, 2016
    Short story writers

    Dead Dogs Are More Than Metaphors

    By Laura Lampton Scott  June 21, 2016
    Feature

    American Noir and the Outlaw Lit of James Sallis

    By Lisa Levy  June 17, 2016
    Close Reading

    The Man in the Macintosh: One of Literature’s Great Mysteries

    By Tyler Malone  June 16, 2016
    Criticism

    Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 14, 2016
    Essay

    How Hemingway’s Bad Behavior Inspired a Generation

    By Lesley M. M. Blume  June 7, 2016
    Criticism

    Actually, Criticism Is Literature

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 2, 2016
    Poets

    Finding Poems in My Own Labyrinth

    By Emily Carr  May 31, 2016
    Essay

    The Literary Genius of Kendrick Lamar

    By Mensah Demary  May 27, 2016
    Essay

    To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 26, 2016
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