• Literary Criticism

    Gatekeeping

    Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

    By Marcos Gonsalez  July 26, 2019
    Writer's block

    Got Writer’s Block?
    Read This Poem

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 25, 2019
    Social Novels

    On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

    By Pramoedya Ananta Toer  July 25, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Love, Death, and the Birds of Terry Tempest Williams

    By Randon Billings Noble  July 24, 2019
    Correspondence

    On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

    By Howard Norman  July 24, 2019
    Criticism

    Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed
    With The Group

    By Mikaella Clements  July 23, 2019
    On Poetry

    My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

    By Elizabeth Bales Frank  July 23, 2019
    Classics

    Was The Odyssey the First Greek Novel?

    By Michael Wood  July 22, 2019
    Criticism

    George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

    By Andrew Ervin  July 22, 2019
    Space!

    A Poet and a Novelist Discuss the Literary Allure of Outer Space

    By Zach Powers and Gale Marie Thompson  July 19, 2019
    Haunted Houses

    My Niece Is Probably the Reincarnation of Shirley Jackson

    By CJ Hauser  July 18, 2019
    Singer Songwriters

    The Fictional Singer-Songwriter Who Got Her Own Real Album

    By Laura Barnett  July 18, 2019
    Criticism

    How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

    By Thomas Dai  July 17, 2019
    Literary History

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

    By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  July 17, 2019
    Literary History

    What Hemingway Cut From For Whom the Bell Tolls

    By Seán Hemingway  July 16, 2019
    Politics

    Brazil’s History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

    By Geovani Martins  July 16, 2019
    Happy Birthday Iris Murdoch

    A.S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch’s
    The Bell

    By A. S. Byatt  July 15, 2019
    Close Reading

    An Object Lesson in Naming Novels: Iris Murdoch’s
    The Sea, The Sea

    By Emily Temple  July 15, 2019
    Virginia Woolf

    Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become Mrs Dalloway

    By Michael Cunningham  July 15, 2019
    Feminist Classics

    Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

    By Leni Zumas  July 15, 2019
    Criticism

    Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 12, 2019
    Personal Essay

    To Tell the Story of a Brother
    I Will Never Know

    By Marian Ryan  July 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

    By Saskia Vogel  July 12, 2019
    Bad Reviews

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird

    By Emily Temple  July 11, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

    By Miciah Bay Gault  July 11, 2019
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