• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

    By Gavin McCrea  October 15, 2015
    Essay

    Why the Printed Book Will Last Another 500 Years

    By Adam Sternbergh  October 14, 2015
    Criticism

    Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

    By Zinzi Clemmons  October 8, 2015
    Criticism

    Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

    By Kenzaburo Oe  October 8, 2015
    Criticism

    Don Quixote: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

    By Ilan Stavans  October 7, 2015
    Criticism

    When Pen Names Become People

    By Tobias Carroll  October 7, 2015
    Criticism

    Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 7, 2015
    Non-fiction

    A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 5, 2015
    Criticism

    How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression

    By Liz Windhorst Harmer  October 5, 2015
    Essay

    Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

    By Sloane Crosley  October 1, 2015
    Criticism

    The Literary Heirs of the Great Carraway

    By Robert Hahn  September 30, 2015
    Essay

    Exploring Patrick Modiano’s Paris

    By Debarati Sanyal  September 28, 2015
    Criticism

    Chinelo Okparanta on Faith, War and Being Gay in Nigeria

    By Molly Rose Quinn  September 21, 2015
    Essay

    Nom de Vie: Literary Social Media in the Age of Ferrante

    By Alexander Chee  September 17, 2015
    Criticism

    Against Lolita

    By Roxana Robinson  September 16, 2015
    Criticism

    Growing Up Carlin

    By Charles Arrowsmith  September 15, 2015
    Memoir

    Beyond the Trans Memoir

    By Veronica Esposito  September 14, 2015
    Excerpts

    Writing Across the Landscape

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 3, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Elena Ferrante: Master of the Epic Anti-Epic

    By Aaron Bady  September 2, 2015
    Essay

    Paul Auster is Speaking Directly to Me Through His Books

    By Mark Andrew Ferguson  September 2, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of the Nose

    By Dustin Illingworth  September 1, 2015
    Essay

    We Need Diverse Diverse Books

    By Matthew Salesses  August 31, 2015
    Essay

    One of the All-Time Great One-Hit Wonder Novels

    By Aaron Gilbreath  August 28, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of the New Modernists

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  August 26, 2015
    Criticism

    A History of Encounters with The Lover

    By Laura van den Berg  August 25, 2015
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