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Literary Criticism

Civil Rights

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
The West

Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

By Annie Proulx  April 10, 2019
On Translation

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
of Maxim Osipov

By Svetlana Alexievich  April 9, 2019
Film and TV

Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve‘s Cool Girl Assassin

By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 8, 2019
Reading Lists

Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

By Emily Temple  April 8, 2019
Craft and Criticism

On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
a Writer’s Diary

By Duncan Hannah  April 5, 2019
Craft and Criticism

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

By Emily Temple  April 4, 2019
Oddities

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

By Nick Ripatrazone  April 2, 2019
Essay

James Baldwin Might Have Been Most
at Home in Istanbul

By Hilal Isler  March 29, 2019
Essay

In Praise of the ‘How To’ Creativity Workbook

By Evan James  March 27, 2019
Profile

Laila Lalami: “I Think Evil Needs to Be Called Out.”

By Zahra Hankir  March 26, 2019
Essay

The Life-Changing Magic of 10 Things I Hate About You

By Emily Temple  March 26, 2019
Essay

How to Write About Burnout in the Gig Economy

By Maddie Crum  March 26, 2019
Criticism

Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

By Franco Moretti  March 25, 2019
Essay

How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother

By Gabrielle Bellot  March 22, 2019
Feature

The Lesser Known Life Behind’The Yellow Wallpaper’

By Greer Macallister  March 21, 2019
New in Nonfiction

Learning From Carolyn Forché’s Fearlessness

By Beth Kephart  March 20, 2019
Poets

On the Poetic Legacy of W.S. Merwin

By John Freeman  March 19, 2019
Criticism

The Enduring Appeal of Literary Tricksters

By Seth Fried  March 19, 2019
Excerpts

The Island That Inspired Conrad and Lawrence’s Queerest Characters

By Jamie James  March 19, 2019
Criticism

Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
Essay

Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

By Emily Temple  March 18, 2019
Excerpts

The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

By James Brooke-Smith  March 18, 2019
Excerpts

James Joyce’s Dublin, a Microcosm of the World

By Sarah Baxter  March 15, 2019
Excerpts

It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

By Artemis Leontis  March 15, 2019
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