• Literary Criticism

    Ekphrasis

    On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

    By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
    new books tuesday

    15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

    By Katie Yee  September 14, 2021
    In Conversation

    Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “Maybe More People Should Have Writer’s Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

    By Joy Williams  September 14, 2021
    Fairy Tales

    Is the Original Pinocchio Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?

    By John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna  September 14, 2021
    Xenophobia

    How Richard Wright Grappled with Behaviorism, Racism, and Trauma in Native Son

    By George Makari  September 14, 2021
    Big Table

    Dana Gioia on Why Ray Bradbury is So Essential

    By Big Table  September 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Water, Water Everywhere: Readings on Life’s Essential Ingredient

    By Giulio Boccaletti  September 14, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Julie Shapiro and Claire Boyle on Reversing Roles for the 64th Issue of McSweeney’s

    By So Many Damn Books  September 14, 2021
    On Reading

    The Books That Give Us Chills: On Reading Emotionally

    By Veronica Esposito  September 13, 2021
    Queer Identity

    If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

    By Jennifer Finney Boylan  September 13, 2021
    Criticism

    In Celebration of Laurie Colwin’s Lost Manhattan

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 13, 2021
    Classics

    Seeking a More Tranquil Mind? Take Horace’s Advice

    By Alan Jacobs  September 13, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Mike Palindrome Chooses the Top 10 Literary Centuries

    By History of Literature  September 13, 2021
    War

    “I Would Not Take Prisoners.” Tolstoy’s Case Against Making War Humane

    By Samuel Moyn  September 10, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Maggie Nelson on Criticism, Intentionality, and Pain

    By The Maris Review  September 9, 2021
    Reading Lists

    7 Novels For Living Out Your Cottagecore Fantasies

    By Lillie Vale  September 9, 2021
    Wilderness

    Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

    By Annabel Abbs  September 9, 2021
    Residencies

    Writing Black Essays in White People’s Houses

    By Jill Louise Busby  September 9, 2021
    Women Writers

    Read It and Weep: Margaret Atwood on the Intimidating, Haunting Intellect of Simone de Beauvoir

    By Margaret Atwood  September 8, 2021
    In Conversation

    Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai Talk Literary Ethics, the Loneliness of Bodies, and Writerly Friendship

    By Rebecca Makkai  September 8, 2021
    Thresholds

    Alexandra Kleeman on the Artificial Boundary Between the Natural and Man-Made

    By Thresholds   September 8, 2021
    Shakespeare

    Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting The Merchant of Venice with My 10-Year-Old Son

    By Dara Horn  September 8, 2021
    African Literature

    The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri

    By Vanessa Guignery  September 8, 2021
    Reading Women

    Crystal Wilkinson on Finding Community Among Affrilachian Poets

    By Reading Women  September 8, 2021
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