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Literary Criticism

NewberyTart

On Carl Hiaasen, Florida Childhoods, and Catching Alligators

By NewberyTart   November 3, 2020
Criticism

Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word

By Gabriel García Márquez  November 2, 2020
The History of Literature

George Orwell’s 1984 is Always Just Around the Corner

By History of Literature  November 2, 2020
Ghosts!

How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

By M Dressler  October 30, 2020
Film Criticism

Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2020
Ghosts!

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

By Claire Cronin  October 30, 2020
Criticism

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
First Novel

By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
Biography

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

By Emily Van Duyne  October 29, 2020
Poetry

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

By Duncan Wu  October 29, 2020
On Poetry

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

By Nicholas McDowell  October 29, 2020
Technology

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

By Book Marks  October 29, 2020
Writer's Retreats

On Sylvia Plath’s Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists’ Colony

By Heather Clark  October 28, 2020
Poets

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

By Douglas Crase  October 28, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

By Book Marks  October 28, 2020
The Hub

16 new books to buy from your local indie bookstore this week.

By Katie Yee  October 27, 2020
Reading Lists

The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

By Emily Temple  October 27, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, October Edition

By Book Marks  October 27, 2020
Philosophy

Michiko Kakutani on
Why We Love Books

By Michiko Kakutani  October 26, 2020
Lit Crit

On Patrick Modiano and Perfecting the Art of Repetition

By Mark Polizzoti  October 26, 2020
The History of Literature

We Have Edgar Allan Poe to Thank for the Detective Story

By History of Literature  October 26, 2020
Nature Writing

Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
In Translation

Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

By David Boyd  October 23, 2020
Indian Literature

The Enduring Strength and Richness of Kashmir’s
Literary Life

By Sharanya Deepak  October 23, 2020
Art

Anne Carson: The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly

By Anne Carson  October 22, 2020
The Writing Life

Against the Muse Myth: On Motherhood and the Writing Life

By Molly Spencer  October 22, 2020
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