• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Return to The South: On Colm Tóibín’s First Novel

    By Katherine A. Powers  May 26, 2015
    Essay

    Michael Friedman, Master of Cliche

    By Molly Young  May 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Against Wunderkinds

    By Alexander Chee  May 21, 2015
    Conversation

    Edward St. Aubyn: A Writer’s Suicide Pact

    By John Freeman  May 19, 2015
    Criticism

    Sergio Pitol: Mexico’s Total Writer

    By Daniel Saldaña París  May 19, 2015
    Conversation

    Norway’s Greatest Living Writer is Actually Dag Solstad

    By Ane Farsethas  May 18, 2015
    Criticism

    Denise Levertov Should Be More Famous

    By Paul Constant  May 15, 2015
    Art

    On the Rebirth of Orlando

    By Ryan Rivas  May 14, 2015
    Criticism

    Did Mark Z. Danielewski Just Reinvent the Novel?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  May 13, 2015
    Criticism

    The Mislaid Plans of Nell Zink

    By Alex Heimbach  May 13, 2015
    Criticism

    My Salinger Year

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 12, 2015
    Essay

    On Memoir: Ondaatje, Smith, and Sante

    By Kerri Arsenault  May 8, 2015
    Essay

    How to Write the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child

    By Jim Shepard  May 7, 2015
    Speech

    Where Are the West’s Political Novelists?

    By Aminatta Forna  May 6, 2015
    Essay

    The Day Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mom Back to Life

    By Christopher Frizzelle  May 6, 2015
    Criticism

    On Choosing to Write in a Second Language

    By Antonio Ruiz-Camacho  April 29, 2015
    Close Reading

    Falconry as therapy

    By Helen Macdonald  April 24, 2015
    Essay

    On the Subject of my Suicide

    By Norah Vincent  April 23, 2015
    Criticism

    When Writers Attack

    By Jonathan Gottschall  April 23, 2015
    Criticism

    We Have This Device. It’s Called a Book.

    By Ryan Britt  April 21, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Amiri Baraka, Politics, and Tough Love

    By Evie Shockley  April 20, 2015
    Essay

    All Elders be Eloquence, or One Way to Pay Dem You Owe

    By Thomas Sayers Ellis  April 20, 2015
    Close Reading

    What He left us

    By Danez Smith  April 20, 2015
    Novelists

    From Potter to Tartt to Ferrante

    By Alexander Chee  April 16, 2015
    Conversation

    On Freaks, Geeks, and 9/11

    By Brian Gresko  April 16, 2015
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