• Literary Criticism

    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
    Deep Dive

    Queering the “I”: On First-Person LGBTQ Narratives

    By Ilana Masad  May 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

    By Philippa Snow  May 18, 2017
    Criticism

    In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More…

    By Literary Hub  May 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Price Tag of Being a Woman

    By Melynda Fuller  May 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

    By Aaron Bady  May 15, 2017
    Politics

    The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 10, 2017
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