• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    “Call Me Ishmael”: At the Nantucket Book Festival

    By Michele Filgate  July 7, 2015
    What to Read

    Quintessential American Fiction, According to the Rest of the World

    By Literary Hub  July 3, 2015
    Close Reading

    On the Surreal Genius of Kelly Link

    By Laura I. Miller  July 2, 2015
    Excerpts

    Toward a Desegregated Literature

    By Calvin Baker  July 1, 2015
    Essay

    Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

    By Joshua Cohen  June 30, 2015
    Essay

    The Book That Changed My Life

    By Malcolm Brooks  June 19, 2015
    Criticism

    Genre Wars, Amazon, and the Market for Heart

    By M. C. Mah  June 16, 2015
    Craft and Criticism

    The Life of the Doctor as Writer

    By Ray Barfield  June 12, 2015
    What to Read

    Island Life: A Hawaiian Reading List

    By Amy Hundley  June 11, 2015
    Conversation

    Traveling Deep Below the Surface of the Book

    By Literary Hub  June 11, 2015
    Novelists

    Saul Bellow’s Nobel Lecture from 1976

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Irvine Welsh Comes to America

    By Charles Arrowsmith  June 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Saul Bellow: Of Crackpots and Conmen

    By Benjamin Markovits  June 10, 2015
    Conversation

    Jim Shepard: in the Shadows of the Holocaust

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 9, 2015
    Criticism

    Nabokov in America

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 9, 2015
    Criticism

    The True Fictions of Joan Didion

    By Nathan Deuel  June 8, 2015
    Criticism

    The Insults of Age

    By Helen Garner  June 5, 2015
    Criticism

    Manners, Morality, and Mid-Century Feminism

    By Roxana Robinson  June 3, 2015
    Criticism

    On the Fine Art of the Footnote

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 3, 2015
    Conversation

    The Poet on His Island

    By John Freeman  June 2, 2015
    Conversation

    Jodorowsky on God, Anti-Semitism and the Uses of Poetry

    By Literary Hub  May 29, 2015
    Criticism

    The Writer’s Gaze

    By Ned Beauman  May 29, 2015
    Criticism

    The Eternal Mystery of the Reclusive Writer

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  May 28, 2015
    Criticism

    Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst

    By Sara Nović  May 28, 2015
    Criticism

    American Kafka?

    By Jeff VanderMeer  May 27, 2015
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