• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

    By Anna Journey  March 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 27, 2017
    In Memoriam

    The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Anjali Enjeti  February 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How Mary Miller’s Stories Demystify the White Working Class

    By Alex Gallo-Brown  February 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

    By Arvind Dilawar  February 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

    By Kristen Martin  February 16, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Daniel Handler on the Best Writer You Don’t Know: Rachel Ingalls

    By Daniel Handler  February 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Everything I Know About Sex I Learned From Edna St. Vincent Millay

    By April Smith  February 14, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How the Powerful Fear Art: Lessons from John Berger

    By Veronica Esposito  February 13, 2017
    History

    Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  February 9, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Behind the Dedications: James Baldwin

    By Arvind Dilawar  February 8, 2017
    Politics

    How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

    By Tobias Carroll  February 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story

    By Emily Harnett  February 6, 2017
    Speech

    George Washington: ‘Citizens By Birth Or Choice’ Will Make America Great

    By Charles Arrowsmith  February 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside

    By Lucinda Rosenfeld  February 3, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids

    By Britni de la Cretaz  February 2, 2017
    Feature

    Reclaiming Of Mice and Men from Parody

    By Emily Temple  February 2, 2017
    Politics

    Novelist Nadifa Mohamed on the Impact of Trump’s Muslim Ban

    By John Freeman  January 31, 2017
    Excerpts

    How to Represent Absence

    By Albert Goldbarth  January 30, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Crime and Murder Among the Mormons

    By Lisa Levy  January 30, 2017
    Biography

    How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name

    By Michael Sims  January 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Elizabeth Harrower, A Great Russian Master (from Australia)

    By Joan London  January 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Roxane Gay on Empathy, Race, and the Work of Alice Childress

    By Roxane Gay  January 24, 2017
    Politics

    What’s Happening in America? Susan Sontag Sought to Find Out in 1966

    By Rafia Zakaria  January 20, 2017
    Film

    30 Years Later, Scorsese Makes His Silence

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 17, 2017
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