• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    The Internet Novel Is As Chaotic As Your Twitter Feed

    By Maddie Crum  May 1, 2020
    Criticism

    How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
    of Violence

    By Pepper Stetler  May 1, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Eavan Boland: Beautiful and Complicated and Fierce and Brilliant and Loyal

    By Gabrielle Calvocoressi  May 1, 2020
    Criticism

    Greil Marcus on Gatsby: A Blues Fable of the Great Depression

    By Greil Marcus  April 30, 2020
    Criticism

    Newly-Translated Latin American Stories Defy Colonial Myths

    By Lucas Iberico Lozada  April 30, 2020
    Travel

    More Reasons to Move to New Zealand: A Literary Guide

    By Elen Turner  April 29, 2020
    Craft

    Rufi Thorpe on the Narrative Role of the Bystander

    By Rufi Thorpe  April 29, 2020
    Political Literature

    Robert Stone’s Journalism Set New Moral and Artistic High-Water Marks

    By Matt Gallagher  April 28, 2020
    Modernism

    Why T.S. Eliot Has Remained an Enigma

    By Vijay Seshadri  April 28, 2020
    Motherhood

    The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

    By Natalie Carnes  April 28, 2020
    Poetry

    All Poetry is Collaboration

    By Matthew Rohrer  April 28, 2020
    18th Century Literature

    On Frances Burney and the Birth of ‘Chick Lit’

    By Gina Fattore  April 27, 2020
    Remembrances

    Guiding Me Back to My Caribbean Roots: Remembering Novelist Andrea Levy

    By Keishel A. Williams  April 24, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends

    By Rebecca Solnit  April 23, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

    By Lawrence Joseph  April 22, 2020
    Modernism

    Falling Out of Love With Modernist Literature

    By Veronica Esposito  April 21, 2020
    Criticism

    William Styron’s Misguided Meditation on History

    By Christopher Tomlins  April 20, 2020
    Criticism

    What Are the Boundaries of a Memoir?

    By Beth Kephart  April 17, 2020
    Workshop

    We Owe More to Our Young Writers: On the Relevance of the Workshop

    By Ru Freeman  April 16, 2020
    Translation

    Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

    By Richard Pevear  April 14, 2020
    On Poetry

    The Question of Homoeroticism in Whitman’s Poetry

    By Mark Doty  April 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic

    By Siri Hustvedt  April 13, 2020
    Criticism

    Like Talking With a Friend: Intimacy in Lucia Berlin’s Peripatetic Narratives

    By Alexandra Chang  April 13, 2020
    On Poetry

    Kay Ryan on the Preposterous Beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    By Kay Ryan  April 13, 2020
    Grammar

    The West in Pieces: On the Reimagined Grammar(s) of C. Pam Zhang

    By Christian Kiefer  April 9, 2020
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