• Literary Criticism

    Deep Dive

    The Evolution of Sex Writing

    By Amanda Arnold  January 6, 2017
    Deep Dive

    There Have Always Been Genre Wars

    By Ezra Glinter  January 5, 2017
    Criticism

    The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  January 5, 2017
    Politics

    Resistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs

    By Literary Hub  January 5, 2017
    Translation

    The Murakami Effect

    By Stephen Snyder  January 4, 2017
    Film

    Not My Sherlock

    By Brittany Cavallaro  January 4, 2017
    Politics

    Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief

    By Literary Hub  January 4, 2017
    Politics

    Resistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2017
    What to Read

    Five Books Making News This Week: Sugar, Satire, and Short Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 3, 2017
    Criticism

    In Memory of George Michael, In Praise of Mistakes

    By Tyler Malone  December 29, 2016
    Deep Dive

    The Year in Single Women

    By Tara Wanda Merrigan  December 27, 2016
    Deep Dive

    The Ghost of Christmas Cheer

    By Timothy Hallinan  December 20, 2016
    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
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