• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    Now is the Time for Equity Journalism

    By Melissa Chadburn  February 27, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Geoff Dyer Goes Deep on WWII Classic Where Eagles Dare

    By Geoff Dyer  February 26, 2019
    Literary History

    If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

    By Liesl Schillinger  February 26, 2019
    Essay

    The Black Women Who Wrote America’s Earliest Autofiction

    By Maryam Kazeem  February 25, 2019
    Deep Dive

    If Beale Street Could Talk: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

    By Ben Rybeck  February 22, 2019
    Excerpts

    How Louisa May Alcott Landed on the Front Lines of the Civil War

    By Samantha Seiple  February 22, 2019
    Criticism

    On David Foster Wallace’s Obsession With Failure

    By Ryan Lackey  February 21, 2019
    Close Reading

    Eula Biss: “A book I can’t defend, a book I can’t renounce.”

    By Eula Biss  February 20, 2019
    Close Reading

    On the Iconic First Line of One Hundred Years of Solitude

    By Claire Adam  February 19, 2019
    Essay

    A Love Letter to Lovers of Outlander

    By Amanda Feinman  February 14, 2019
    Essay

    High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

    By Michael Ursell  February 13, 2019
    Deep Dive

    On Kate Bush’s Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights

    By Brendan Mathews  February 13, 2019
    Deep Dive

    The Death of a Symbol: How Western Writers Exploit the Tiger

    By Aditi Natasha Kini  February 11, 2019
    Close Reading

    Sense or Sensibility… What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

    By Devoney Looser  February 11, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Marriage Isn’t the Only Plot for Love

    By Kristen Martin  February 11, 2019
    Deep Dive

    What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 8, 2019
    Feature

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

    By Emily Temple  February 8, 2019
    Excerpts

    On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

    By William C. Carter  February 7, 2019
    Criticism

    In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 5, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

    By Tobias Carroll  February 1, 2019
    Essay

    On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 30, 2019
    Deep Dive

    When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 28, 2019
    Essay

    Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

    By Daisy Johnson  January 25, 2019
    Essay

    How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

    By Katharine Smyth  January 25, 2019
    Close Reading

    Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

    By Emily Van Duyne  January 24, 2019
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