• Literary Criticism

    Fantasy

    Marlon James: On the Power of Myth in Neil Gaiman’s Fiction

    By Marlon James  October 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

    By Daniel Tam-Claiborne  October 20, 2020
    Lit Century

    Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

    By Lit Century   October 20, 2020
    Gender and Politics

    On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

    By Kanako Nishi  October 20, 2020
    Criticism

    On the Unexpected Hopefulness of Don DeLillo’s The Silence

    By Alexander Sammartino  October 19, 2020
    The History of Literature

    What Happens When You Open a Phone Line for People to Gush About Their Favorite Books

    By History of Literature  October 19, 2020
    Poetry

    The Soul-Excavating Work of Louise Glück

    By Maureen N. McLane  October 16, 2020
    Criticism

    The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

    By James K.A. Smith  October 16, 2020
    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
    Literary Readings

    In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

    By S. Kirk Walsh  October 14, 2020
    Illness

    How Audre Lorde’s Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

    By Tracy K. Smith  October 14, 2020
    Letters

    A Young John Berryman Writes R.P. Blackmur About His Favorite Poets

    By John Berryman  October 14, 2020
    Essays

    Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

    By Claire Messud  October 13, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    By Lit Century   October 13, 2020
    What to Read

    10 Books You Should Read
    in October

    By Literary Hub  October 13, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On Edgar Allan Poe’s Creepy Doppelgänger Story, “William Wilson”

    By History of Literature  October 12, 2020
    September Books

    5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

    By Bethanne Patrick  October 9, 2020
    Criticism

    How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

    By John Freeman  October 6, 2020
    Young Adult

    Where Are the Unlikeable Female Characters in Young Adult Fiction?

    By Hayley Krischer  October 6, 2020
    Theater

    Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

    By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
    Close Reading

    Why is The Known World
    So Good?

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2020
    Lit Crit

    The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

    By Elizabeth Poliner  October 5, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On the Haunting Remorse of Edgar Allan Poe’s
    “The Black Cat”

    By History of Literature  October 5, 2020
    Criticism

    A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

    By Jamieson Webster  October 2, 2020
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