• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Algeria After Camus

    By Namara Smith  December 8, 2015
    Essay

    How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

    By Lorraine Berry  December 4, 2015
    Criticism

    How to Read a Movie Like a Book

    By Bridget Read  December 3, 2015
    Criticism

    When Setting Trumps Character

    By Tobias Carroll  November 23, 2015
    Essay

    80 Books No Woman Should Read

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 18, 2015
    Essay

    Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

    By Lauren Elkin  November 17, 2015
    Essay

    The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  November 16, 2015
    Essay

    Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

    By Lorrie Moore  November 6, 2015
    Feature

    Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

    By Dodie Bellamy  November 6, 2015
    Essay

    Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

    By Noy Holland  November 5, 2015
    Essay

    Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

    By Alison Currie  November 5, 2015
    Essay

    Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

    By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel

    By Bridget Read  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    In Defense of the New Censorship

    By Corinne Manning  October 28, 2015
    Essay

    On the Random Discovery of Life-Changing Books

    By Bruce Bauman  October 28, 2015
    Essay

    On Buying Books from the Dead

    By Alexander Chee  October 27, 2015
    Criticism

    An Open Letter to An Unnamed White Writer

    By P.E. Garcia  October 27, 2015
    Essay

    When a White Writer Uses a Latino Pen Name

    By AKA Jesus Angel Garcia  October 26, 2015
    Criticism

    True Confessions of an Auto-Fictionist

    By Lily Tuck  October 23, 2015
    Essay

    The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 22, 2015
    Essay

    Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

    By Jason Diamond  October 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Jane Smiley: “At the End of This Trilogy, I Wept.”

    By Jane Smiley  October 20, 2015
    Essay

    The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

    By Margaret Eby  October 20, 2015
    Essay

    Plays vs. Novels (You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next)

    By Kirk Lynn  October 19, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

    By Joel Cuthbertson  October 16, 2015
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