• Literary Criticism

    On Craft

    Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

    By Daniel Joshua Rubin  August 19, 2020
    Psychology

    In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

    By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
    Craft

    Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

    By Emily Temple  August 18, 2020
    Family Drama

    The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

    By Ellyn A. Lem  August 17, 2020
    Memoir

    Finding Catharsis in the Story
    of a Family Betrayal

    By Darin Strauss  August 17, 2020
    Literary History

    Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

    By Rhian Sasseen  August 17, 2020
    Essays

    Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
    Shakespeare

    Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing

    By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti  August 14, 2020
    Gay Icons

    John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

    By Mark Dery  August 14, 2020
    California

    How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

    By Peter Lunenfeld  August 13, 2020
    Literary Biographies

    Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

    By Ann Jefferson  August 13, 2020
    Family

    Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

    By Rebecca Rukeyser  August 12, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

    By Cree LeFavour  August 12, 2020
    True and Correct Rankings

    40 Hamlets, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  August 11, 2020
    Girlhood

    The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

    By Lisa Selin Davis  August 11, 2020
    Criticism

    When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

    By Melanie Cheng  August 11, 2020
    Memoir

    My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

    By Gretchen Cherington  August 7, 2020
    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Chronic Illness

    On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness… and Chronic Racism

    By Maggie Levantovskaya  August 6, 2020
    Music

    Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

    By Odie Lindsey  August 5, 2020
    Nonfiction

    A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
    Or the Pleasures of Precision

    By Karen Babine  August 3, 2020
    What to Read Next

    The Essential Steven Millhauser: Where to Start With An Underrated American Master

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    American Classics

    Jeet Heer on the Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

    By Jeet Heer  August 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson’s Work

    By Joy Williams  August 3, 2020
    Brazilian literature

    On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

    By Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa  August 3, 2020
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