• Literary Criticism

    Excerpts

    My Louise Bourgeois

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 19, 2016
    Op-Ed

    The Best Children’s Books Appeal to All Ages

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Joan Didion’s Disaffected Literary Descendants

    By Katie Dobbs  December 16, 2016
    Short story writers

    Getting Lost in William Trevor’s Private World

    By D. Wystan Owen  December 16, 2016
    In Memoriam

    Basking in Shirley Hazzard’s Pure, Cold Light

    By Mary Duffy  December 15, 2016
    Criticism

    In Praise of Zadie Smith’s London

    By Marta Bausells  December 14, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How Nostalgia Corrupts Politics and Pop Culture

    By Sean Bernard  December 13, 2016
    Politics

    William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street, Channels a Tween Trump

    By John Domini  December 12, 2016
    Deep Dive

    What Counts As Transgender Literature?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 9, 2016
    Archives

    The Time Mario Puzo Wrote a Takedown of The Paris Review

    By M. J. Moore  December 9, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How We Write About Work, Then and Now

    By Juliana Broad  December 8, 2016
    Criticism

    Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

    By Noah Berlatsky  December 7, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?

    By Alex Beam  December 6, 2016
    Translation

    César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

    By Mark Haber  December 6, 2016
    Feature

    Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America’s Soul

    By Veronica Esposito  December 5, 2016
    Poets

    Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

    By Rajat Singh  December 5, 2016
    Criticism

    Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

    By Katharine Noel  December 2, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of ‘Patient Zero,’ and the Book That Started It All

    By Harron Walker  December 1, 2016
    Poets

    Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

    By Michael Denneny  December 1, 2016
    Personal Essay

    The Gifts of Reading Are Many

    By Robert Macfarlane  November 30, 2016
    Deep Dive

    A Feminist Thoreau

    By Rafia Zakaria  November 30, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

    By Clare Sestanovich  November 29, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

    By Miriam Toews  November 28, 2016
    Poets

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda’s Lost Poems

    By Forrest Gander  November 23, 2016
    Deep Dive

    What Does “Longform” Journalism Really Mean?

    By Brendan Fitzgerald  November 21, 2016
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