• Literary Criticism

    Literary History

    Why Do Some Writers Burn Their Work?

    By Alex George  May 15, 2020
    On Race

    On the Dreams of Latinx Women in a Pandemic Year

    By Felicia Zamora  May 14, 2020
    #MeToo

    What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?

    By Jay Gabler  May 14, 2020
    Surrealism

    How to Read Surreally in a Surreal Time

    By Maria Reva  May 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Children’s Books Make Good Companions in a Crisis

    By Amanda Craig  May 12, 2020
    End Times

    Lydia Millet Wonders Why We’re Not Panicking More

    By Kristin Iversen  May 11, 2020
    Politics

    How Cherokee Citizens Are Writing Themselves
    Into the Future

    By Erika Wurth  May 7, 2020
    The Midwest

    Digging Beyond the Myths of America’s Red-Blue Divide

    By Sarah Neilson  May 6, 2020
    Bad Guys

    The Sociopath in Black and White: A Reading List

    By Dr. Martha Stout  May 6, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Remembering H.G. Carrillo, and His Marvelous Recounting of Cuban History

    By H.G. Carrillo  May 6, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Annie Ernaux’s Object Lessons:
    Braiding Identity Through Time

    By Mary Hawthorne  May 6, 2020
    Conversations

    Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

    By Sarah Moore  May 4, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Dear Eavan Boland, I Wanted to Send You a Letter

    By Amy Robinson  May 1, 2020
    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
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