• Craft and Criticism

    Poets

    Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

    By Liza Wieland  June 28, 2019
    Criticism

    Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

    By Amanda Rea  June 28, 2019
    In This Essay I Will...

    Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don’t Read Too Much.

    By Antoine Compagnon  June 27, 2019
    Political Literature

    We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell’s 1984

    By Dorian Lynskey  June 27, 2019
    Gay Icons

    On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

    By Camille Paglia  June 27, 2019
    Motherhood

    Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

    By Alix Ohlin  June 26, 2019
    Freeman's

    I Read One Hundred Books
    Just to Write One

    By Heather O'Neill  June 26, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
    Her Father

    By Jacquelyn Ardam  June 26, 2019
    Criticism

    How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 26, 2019
    The Hub

    That v. which: a grammatical throwdown.

    By Philip Hensher  June 25, 2019
    Literary History

    The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

    By Jack Parlett  June 25, 2019
    First Languages

    The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

    By Sadiqa de Meijer  June 25, 2019
    Criticism

    Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal’s Long Career

    By Catherine Lacey  June 25, 2019
    Society

    The Many Ways We Create the ‘Other’

    By Louise Aronson  June 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

    By Annie Proulx  June 24, 2019
    Corporate America

    On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

    By Johanna Berkman  June 24, 2019
    Anger

    How We Fictionalize Anger to Understand the World

    By Rachel DeWoskin  June 24, 2019
    Tributes

    The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

    By Emily Temple  June 21, 2019
    Asian American Literature

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  June 21, 2019
    Anthologies

    On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

    By Lucy Caldwell  June 21, 2019
    Climate Change

    We’re Doomed. Now What?
    Roy Scranton on Climate Change

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  June 21, 2019
    Close Reading

    The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

    By Danielle Dutton  June 21, 2019
    Existentialism

    The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont’s Fiction

    By André Naffis-Sahely  June 21, 2019
    Literary History

    The Poet and the Monk:
    An Anne Sexton Love Story

    By Nick Ripatrazone  June 20, 2019
    Animals

    Why Does Losing a Pet Hurt So Much?

    By Jacky Colliss Harvey  June 20, 2019
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