• Literary Criticism

    Reading Lists

    Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

    By Emily Temple  April 8, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
    a Writer’s Diary

    By Duncan Hannah  April 5, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

    By Emily Temple  April 4, 2019
    Oddities

    Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 2, 2019
    Essay

    James Baldwin Might Have Been Most
    at Home in Istanbul

    By Hilal Isler  March 29, 2019
    Essay

    In Praise of the ‘How To’ Creativity Workbook

    By Evan James  March 27, 2019
    Profile

    Laila Lalami: “I Think Evil Needs to Be Called Out.”

    By Zahra Hankir  March 26, 2019
    Essay

    The Life-Changing Magic of 10 Things I Hate About You

    By Emily Temple  March 26, 2019
    Essay

    How to Write About Burnout in the Gig Economy

    By Maddie Crum  March 26, 2019
    Criticism

    Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

    By Franco Moretti  March 25, 2019
    Essay

    How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 22, 2019
    Feature

    The Lesser Known Life Behind’The Yellow Wallpaper’

    By Greer Macallister  March 21, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Learning From Carolyn Forché’s Fearlessness

    By Beth Kephart  March 20, 2019
    Poets

    On the Poetic Legacy of W.S. Merwin

    By John Freeman  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    The Enduring Appeal of Literary Tricksters

    By Seth Fried  March 19, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Island That Inspired Conrad and Lawrence’s Queerest Characters

    By Jamie James  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

    By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
    Essay

    Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

    By Emily Temple  March 18, 2019
    Excerpts

    The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

    By James Brooke-Smith  March 18, 2019
    Excerpts

    James Joyce’s Dublin, a Microcosm of the World

    By Sarah Baxter  March 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

    By Artemis Leontis  March 15, 2019
    Essay

    Why Do We Hate the Suburbs?

    By Suzannah Lessard  March 14, 2019
    Criticism

    Honoré de Balzac’s Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

    By Emily Temple  March 14, 2019
    Excerpts

    Thankfulness, Praise, and Ross Gay

    By Adam Sol  March 13, 2019
    Awards

    31 Books in 30 Days: Michael Schaub on Rachel Kushner

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2019
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