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Literary Criticism

Deep Dive

Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

By Matthew Carr  June 19, 2017
Deep Dive

In Grief, Joan Didion’s Move From Fiction to Memoir

By David L. Ulin  June 15, 2017
Deep Dive

Wallace Shawn: How Should a Person Be?

By Wallace Shawn  June 13, 2017
Deep Dive

Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women’s Bodies in Horror

By Rebecca Harkins-Cross  June 8, 2017
Deep Dive

Is Richard Brautigan’s Most Famous Novel a Minor Masterpiece or Naive Relic?

By Nick Ripatrazone  June 7, 2017
Poets

On the Generosity of Gwendolyn Brooks, 100 Years Later

By Matt St. John  June 7, 2017
History

From Penelope to Pussyhats, The Ancient Origins of Feminist Craftivism

By Stephanie McCarter  June 7, 2017
Criticism

Why is One Hundred Years of Solitude Eternally Beloved?

By Veronica Esposito  June 6, 2017
Close Reading

Huckleberry Kat: How Mark Twain Influenced George Herriman

By Michael Tisserand  June 6, 2017
Deep Dive

Revisiting Jenny Diski’s Debut, Sadomasochistic Novel

By Daphne Merkin  June 5, 2017
Criticism

My Fictional Nemesis: Why Thomas Hardy’s Angel Clare is the Worst

By Rachel Vorona Cote  June 2, 2017
Essay

Separating Truth from Lies in the Face of Atrocity

By Johanna Skibsrud  June 2, 2017
Deep Dive

Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

By John Sherman  June 2, 2017
Deep Dive

The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

By Gabrielle Bellot  June 1, 2017
Profile

At a Sword Fight with a Modern-Day Swashbuckler (in a Harlem Basement)

By Dwyer Murphy  June 1, 2017
Criticism

Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

By Carol Dyhouse  June 1, 2017
Criticism

Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles’s First Novel

By Chris Kraus  May 31, 2017
Close Reading

I Found My Family in Jesus’ Son

By James Boice  May 31, 2017
Deep Dive

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

By Conor Higgins  May 25, 2017
Op-Ed

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

By Lorraine Berry  May 24, 2017
Close Reading

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

By Theodore McCombs  May 24, 2017
Deep Dive

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

By Veronica Esposito  May 23, 2017
Deep Dive

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

By Buzz Poole  May 22, 2017
Excerpts

Americans in Search of Utopia

By Betsy Hartmann  May 22, 2017
Op-Ed

Why We Do Need Another Adaptation of Little Women

By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 19, 2017
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