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Literary Criticism

Essayists

What Makes a Great
American Essay?

By Phillip Lopate  November 17, 2020
Lit Crit

Sheila Heti on the Importance of Finding Trusted Readers

By Sheila Heti  November 16, 2020
The History of Literature

The Real Golden Age of
Science Fiction

By History of Literature  November 16, 2020
5 Books You May Have Missed

5 Books You May Have
Missed in October

By Bethanne Patrick  November 13, 2020
New Books Network

Kathleen Jennings on the Grim Genre of the Australian Gothic

By New Books Network  November 13, 2020
Feminism

On George Eliot’s Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

By Kathy O'Shaughnessy  November 12, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

By Emily Temple  November 11, 2020
Walking

The Dissident Act of Taking a
Walk at Night

By Matthew Beaumont  November 11, 2020
Audiobooks

Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

By James Tate Hill  November 11, 2020
Poetry

A Poetic Structure Built on Many Voices: Talking to Matthew Daddona

By Joannie Stangeland  November 11, 2020
Lit Century

On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

By Lit Century   November 10, 2020
5 Questions

In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

By Literary Hub  November 10, 2020
The Hub

Why are we so hungry for books about cannibals?

By Katie Yee  November 9, 2020
Profiles

Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

By Brian Gresko  November 9, 2020
Short Stories

Shirley Hazzard’s Heroines and the World That
Misunderstood Them

By Zoë Heller  November 9, 2020
On Poetry

How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
The History of Literature

The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

By History of Literature  November 9, 2020
The Writing Life

No One Gets Sylvia Plath

By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
Children's Lit

Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

By Leanne Hall  November 6, 2020
Poetry

Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet
Ana Cristina Cesar

By Elisa Wouk Almino  November 6, 2020
New Books Network

P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
Lit Crit

A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

By Tom Comitta  November 5, 2020
On Memoir

The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
Titles

What We Talk About When We Talk About This Title Format

By Fiona Bell  November 4, 2020
Lit Century

On Female Friendship and Transgression in Nella Larsen’s Passing

By Lit Century   November 3, 2020
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