• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 14, 2016
    Essay

    How Hemingway’s Bad Behavior Inspired a Generation

    By Lesley M. M. Blume  June 7, 2016
    Criticism

    Actually, Criticism Is Literature

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 2, 2016
    Poets

    Finding Poems in My Own Labyrinth

    By Emily Carr  May 31, 2016
    Essay

    The Literary Genius of Kendrick Lamar

    By Mensah Demary  May 27, 2016
    Essay

    To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 26, 2016
    Criticism

    Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

    By Joseph Osmundson  May 26, 2016
    Essay

    Actually, All Writers Steal

    By Rufi Thorpe  May 24, 2016
    Feature

    Donald Trump Has Set Fire to America

    By Lyz Lenz  May 24, 2016
    Essay

    Nikki Giovanni on Race, Hope, Fatherhood, and Roots

    By Nikki Giovanni  May 20, 2016
    What to Read

    We Need More First-Hand Books About Urban Poverty

    By Lisa Levy  May 19, 2016
    Essay

    What Does It Mean When We Call Women Girls?

    By Robin Wasserman  May 18, 2016
    Essay

    How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

    By Richard Cohen  May 18, 2016
    Op-Ed

    How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

    By Emily Harnett  May 17, 2016
    Poets

    The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

    By Enrique Vila-Matas  May 17, 2016
    Essay

    How Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love Saved Me

    By Helena Fitzgerald  May 17, 2016
    Criticism

    I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 13, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

    By David L. Ulin  May 13, 2016
    Essay

    Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

    By Daniel Torday  May 12, 2016
    Essay

    The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 12, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

    By Eileen Pollack  May 10, 2016
    Essay

    Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

    By Peter Constantine  May 9, 2016
    Essay

    No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving

    By Hannah Gersen  May 6, 2016
    Essay

    On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

    By Jordan Rosenfeld  May 6, 2016
    Essay

    Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

    By Rivka Galchen  May 6, 2016
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