• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  November 18, 2016
    Essay

    Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

    By M. Allen Cunningham  November 17, 2016
    Feature

    Harry Potter is Actually a Great Narrative Frame for Good and Evil

    By Emily Temple  November 15, 2016
    Criticism

    What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

    By Sabina Murray  November 10, 2016
    A Phone Call From Paul

    How We Talk About Women’s Lives

    By Kelcey Parker Ervick  November 9, 2016
    Essay

    A Young Woman Called Death…

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 1, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Perilous Potential of Feminist Silence

    By Carina del Valle Schorske  November 1, 2016
    Essay

    Every House is a Haunted House

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2016
    Essay

    Why We Love to Be Haunted

    By Lyz Lenz  October 31, 2016
    Essay

    Are You an Anne Shirley or an Emily Starr?

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  October 27, 2016
    Feature

    The Publisher Who Rejected Jane Austen

    By Shelley DeWees  October 26, 2016
    Essay

    Has Imbolo Mbue Written the Great American Novel?

    By Aaron Bady  October 26, 2016
    Essay

    Police Violence and the American Caste System

    By Colette Shade  October 25, 2016
    Essay

    The Rise of the Small Press on the Man Booker Shortlist

    By Marta Bausells  October 24, 2016
    Essay

    Edward Albee, Big in Bulgaria

    By Dimiter Kenarov  October 24, 2016
    Essay

    From Weimar to Appalachia, a Syllabus for Our Brush with Fascism

    By Daniela Blei  October 21, 2016
    Criticism

    In Defense of Bad Best Friends

    By Heather Wells Peterson  October 19, 2016
    Criticism

    How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient

    By Tobias Carroll  October 18, 2016
    Criticism

    How Patricia Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley Rises from Genre to Myth

    By James Lasdun  October 18, 2016
    Essay

    Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

    By Derek Palacio  October 17, 2016
    Design

    In Praise of the Illustrated Book

    By Buzz Poole  October 17, 2016
    Criticism

    How to Keep Out Death: On the Literature of Crowds

    By Dustin Illingworth  October 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    On Bob Dylan’s Literary Influences

    By Mark Polizzotti  October 14, 2016
    Feature

    The Banality of Donald Trump

    By Rafia Zakaria  October 14, 2016
    Biography

    So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

    By Lisa Levy  October 13, 2016
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