• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

    By Jennifer Schaffer  May 2, 2018
    Essay

    On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 30, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Our Imaginations Need to Dwell Where the Wild Things Are

    By Liam Heneghan  April 30, 2018
    Essay

    Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

    By Tobias Carroll  April 26, 2018
    Essay

    Reading Rilke in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes

    By Henri Cole  April 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

    By Damon Young  April 26, 2018
    Essay

    Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale

    By Margaret Atwood  April 25, 2018
    Essay

    When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

    By Colette Shade  April 24, 2018
    Criticism

    Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining

    By Kelly Coyne  April 23, 2018
    Archives

    The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

    By Emily Temple  April 20, 2018
    Essay

    It’s Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

    By Tom McAllister  April 20, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Silent Spring is More than a Scientific Landmark: It’s Literature

    By Rebecca Renner  April 20, 2018
    Essay

    The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer’s Memoir

    By Larissa Pham  April 18, 2018
    Feature

    What the Critics Are Saying About the New James Comey Book

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2018
    Essay

    Michelle Dean: The Problem With “Speaking for Women”

    By Michelle Dean  April 13, 2018
    Essay

    The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 13, 2018
    Criticism

    Restoring Power to the Women of Ancient Myth

    By Madeline Miller  April 11, 2018
    Poets

    Maybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens

    By Thomas C. Foster  April 11, 2018
    Criticism

    The 100 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of The Great Gatsby

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Why Has Poet Lola Ridge Disappeared?

    By Terese Svoboda  April 6, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Your Pocket Guide to 10 Literary Movements

    By Emily Temple  April 5, 2018
    Profile

    Meg Wolitzer: “What Does it Mean to Be a Woman in Power?”

    By Kaylen Ralph  April 5, 2018
    Essay

    When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

    By Emily Temple  April 4, 2018
    Op-Ed

    The Year in Trump Novel Pitches: An Agent’s Lament

    By Erik Hane  March 30, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Moderata Fonte’s Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

    By Virginia Cox  March 27, 2018
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