• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    What Should Fiction Do?

    By Bonnie Nadzam  July 26, 2016
    Feature

    Clive James on the Poetry of Kingsley Amis

    By Clive James  July 25, 2016
    What to Read

    The Best Books About Books: Part 2

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  July 21, 2016
    Feature

    What If I’m Actually a Character in a Larry McMurtry Novel?

    By Claudia Smith  July 20, 2016
    Feature

    Reading and Writing My Way Through the AIDS Crisis

    By Matthew Cheney  July 20, 2016
    Feature

    On the Journals of Famous Writers

    By Dustin Illingworth  July 19, 2016
    Essay

    Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 18, 2016
    Feature

    Why Do We Write About Orphans So Much?

    By Liz Moore  July 18, 2016
    Essay

    Frivolity, Death, and Milena Busquets

    By Marta Bausells  July 15, 2016
    Feature

    When Grief Becomes Surreal

    By Tobias Carroll  July 15, 2016
    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
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