• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

    By Lorrie Moore  November 6, 2015
    Feature

    Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

    By Dodie Bellamy  November 6, 2015
    Essay

    Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

    By Noy Holland  November 5, 2015
    Essay

    Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

    By Alison Currie  November 5, 2015
    Essay

    Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

    By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel

    By Bridget Read  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    In Defense of the New Censorship

    By Corinne Manning  October 28, 2015
    Essay

    On the Random Discovery of Life-Changing Books

    By Bruce Bauman  October 28, 2015
    Essay

    On Buying Books from the Dead

    By Alexander Chee  October 27, 2015
    Criticism

    An Open Letter to An Unnamed White Writer

    By P.E. Garcia  October 27, 2015
    Essay

    When a White Writer Uses a Latino Pen Name

    By AKA Jesus Angel Garcia  October 26, 2015
    Criticism

    True Confessions of an Auto-Fictionist

    By Lily Tuck  October 23, 2015
    Essay

    The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  October 22, 2015
    Essay

    Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

    By Jason Diamond  October 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Jane Smiley: “At the End of This Trilogy, I Wept.”

    By Jane Smiley  October 20, 2015
    Essay

    The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

    By Margaret Eby  October 20, 2015
    Essay

    Plays vs. Novels (You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next)

    By Kirk Lynn  October 19, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

    By Joel Cuthbertson  October 16, 2015
    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
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