• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    On Hunger, Women’s Bodies, and Margaret Atwood’s First Novel

    By Lara Williams  July 10, 2019
    Literary History

    Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

    By Irene Goldman-Price  July 9, 2019
    Art and Politics

    The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

    By Madeline ffitch  July 9, 2019
    Tragicomedy

    How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

    By Randy Boyagoda  July 9, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Art World Doesn’t Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

    By Barbara Bourland  July 2, 2019
    Whitman

    Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Biennial with the Morgan Library & Museum

    By Ted Widmer  July 2, 2019
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Emily Firetog  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

    By Domenico Starnone  June 28, 2019
    Poets

    Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

    By Liza Wieland  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

    By Amanda Rea  June 28, 2019
    In This Essay I Will...

    Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

    By Antoine Compagnon  June 27, 2019
    Political Literature

    We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell’s 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 27, 2019
    Gay Icons

    On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

    By Camille Paglia  June 27, 2019
    Motherhood

    Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

    By Alix Ohlin  June 26, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
    Her Father

    By Jacquelyn Ardam  June 26, 2019
    Criticism

    How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 26, 2019
    Literary History

    The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

    By Jack Parlett  June 25, 2019
    First Languages

    The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

    By Sadiqa de Meijer  June 25, 2019
    Criticism

    Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal’s Long Career

    By Catherine Lacey  June 25, 2019
    Society

    The Many Ways We Create the ‘Other’

    By Louise Aronson  June 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

    By Annie Proulx  June 24, 2019
    Corporate America

    On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

    By Johanna Berkman  June 24, 2019
    Tributes

    The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

    By Emily Temple  June 21, 2019
    Asian American Literature

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  June 21, 2019
    Anthologies

    On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

    By Lucy Caldwell  June 21, 2019
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