• Literary Criticism

    Excerpts

    The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won’t Die

    By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  January 26, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  January 24, 2018
    Criticism

    Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

    By Philip Metres  January 23, 2018
    Criticism

    Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

    By M. C. Mah  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

    By Veronica Esposito  January 22, 2018
    Essay

    How to Read Caves

    By Susan Harlan  January 19, 2018
    Criticism

    The Literature of Bad Sex

    By Hermione Hoby  January 18, 2018
    Essay

    Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix

    By Lincoln Michel  January 12, 2018
    Essay

    Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

    By Emily Temple  January 9, 2018
    Feature

    Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

    By Danielle Jackson  January 3, 2018
    Essay

    J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

    By J.M. Coetzee  January 2, 2018
    Essay

    Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

    By Maud Casey  January 2, 2018
    Craft and Criticism

    Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

    By Ali Smith  December 28, 2017
    Essay

    Is Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas a Work of Genius?

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  December 20, 2017
    Essay

    The Privilege of Plotlessness

    By Lynn Steger Strong  December 18, 2017
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2017
    News and Culture

    The Bloody Catharsis of Femme Revenge

    By Emma C. Eisenberg  December 13, 2017
    Essay

    Against the Bad Sex in Fiction Award

    By TD Storm  December 12, 2017
    Criticism

    Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster

    By Rebecca Solnit  December 12, 2017
    Criticism

    Revelations Upon Learning Kafka’s Niece Knows My Name

    By Gennady Aygi  December 12, 2017
    Feature

    Why Is the Internet in an Uproar Over a Single Short Story?

    By Emily Temple  December 11, 2017
    Op-Ed

    A Boeuf Bourguignon for the End of the World

    By Patrick Nathan  December 11, 2017
    Essay

    Why I Hate Christmas (But Love Songs About Hating Christmas)

    By Peter Blauner  December 11, 2017
    Criticism

    Reading Kobo Abe with One Eye on Edgar Allan Poe

    By Scott Beauchamp  December 11, 2017
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