• Literary Criticism

    Writing Advice

    Demystifying the Writer’s Fear of Failure

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 16, 2019
    Criticism

    Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

    By Harold Bloom  October 16, 2019
    Biography

    The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

    By Iris Origo  October 15, 2019
    News and Culture

    Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

    By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

    By John Freeman  October 10, 2019
    Love

    Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

    By Brad Gooch   October 10, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

    By Billy Kahora  October 9, 2019
    Children's Literature

    Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

    By Philip Pullman  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid’s Children’s Mystery

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 7, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

    By Morten Høi Jensen  October 7, 2019
    Feminism

    On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

    By Zefyr Lisowski  October 7, 2019
    Philosophy

    The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

    By Lisa Levy  October 4, 2019
    Anti-Colonialism

    The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin’s Last Two Unfinished Works

    By Bill V. Mullen  October 4, 2019
    Archives

    The Author Who Didn’t Care to Be Remembered

    By Jean-Christophe Cloutier  October 4, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

    By Mieko Kawakami  October 3, 2019
    Language

    Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

    By Johanna Skibsrud  October 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Sigrid Undset’s Doomed Flâneuse is
    a Cautionary Tale

    By Lauren Elkin  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

    By Jacek Dehnel  October 2, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson

    By Karen Solie  October 1, 2019
    Influences

    Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
    I Needed to Write My Novel

    By Ocean Vuong  October 1, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature’s Most Necessary Characters

    By Alberto Manguel  October 1, 2019
    Theater

    Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

    By Cornel West  October 1, 2019
    Nobel Prize?

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  September 30, 2019
    Short story writers

    Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

    By Lauren Groff  September 30, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    When Will Ben Lerner Admit He’s a Novelist?

    By Emily Temple  September 30, 2019
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