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Literary Criticism
Is
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
a Work of Genius?
On Russell and Lillian Hoban, Giants of 20th-Century Children's Literature
By
Rebecca Rego Barry
| December 20, 2017
The Privilege of Plotlessness
Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| December 18, 2017
A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time
From Shirley Jackson's
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
, of course
By
Emily Temple
| December 15, 2017
The Bloody Catharsis of Femme Revenge
Seeking Out Stories of Women Who are Finished Rising Above
By
Emma C. Eisenberg
| December 13, 2017
Against the Bad Sex in Fiction Award
A Critically Misguided (and Ultimately Meaningless) Tradition
By
TD Storm
| December 12, 2017
Rebecca Solnit on Women's Work and the Myth of the Art Monster
Creativity and Advocacy Are No More (Or Less) Selfish Than Motherhood
By
Rebecca Solnit
| December 12, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Revelations Upon Learning Kafka's Niece Knows My Name
By
Gennady Aygi
| December 12, 2017
Why Is the Internet in an Uproar Over a Single Short Story?
By
Emily Temple
| December 11, 2017
A Boeuf Bourguignon for the End of the World
By
Patrick Nathan
| December 11, 2017
Why I Hate Christmas (But Love Songs About Hating Christmas)
Why the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Can Be Pretty Damn Sad
By
Peter Blauner
| December 11, 2017
Reading Kobo Abe with One Eye on Edgar Allan Poe
Scott Beauchamp on the Literary Transmission of Mystery
By
Scott Beauchamp
| December 11, 2017
How
Heart of Darkness
Revealed the Horror of Congo's Rubber Trade
Conrad's Novel Led to Investigation (and Legislation) of Human Rights Abuses
By
Maya Jasanoff
| December 7, 2017
Ursula K. Le Guin: Who Cares About the Great American Novel?
Against a Uselessly Competitive, Hopelessly Gendered Concept
By
Ursula K. Le Guin
| December 6, 2017
Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes
Brandon Taylor, in Praise of Slow Reading
By
Brandon Taylor
| December 6, 2017
Whatever Happened to the Ecstasy of Art?
Arts Policy, Like All Policy, is Now Dominated by the Language of Managerialism
By
Jules Evans
| December 6, 2017
The Other Invisibles of Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man
Gabrielle Bellot on the Othering of Caribbeans and Africans in America
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| December 1, 2017
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"