• Craft and Criticism

    Criticism

    The Literature of Bad Sex

    By Hermione Hoby  January 18, 2018
    Profile

    When Your Feminist Dystopia Becomes a Work of Realism

    By Maddie Crum  January 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

    By Justin Spring  January 18, 2018
    Essay

    I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

    By Molly Caro May  January 18, 2018
    Advice

    John Jeremiah Sullivan: There’s No Such Thing as Wasted Writing

    By Alec Hill  January 17, 2018
    Conversations

    Ariel Goldberg on Criticism, Queer Art, and Polemics

    By Syd Staiti  January 17, 2018
    Archives

    Read Susan Sontag’s Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

    By Emily Temple  January 16, 2018
    Essay

    Who Gets to Write About Gentrification?

    By Naima Coster  January 16, 2018
    Essay

    Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix

    By Lincoln Michel  January 12, 2018
    Conversations

    Repositories of Memory: On the Country House Novel

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2018
    Advice

    Dear Rick Moody: Half My Family Knows the Truth About Me

    By Rick Moody  January 12, 2018
    Essay

    Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

    By James Tate Hill  January 11, 2018
    Conversations

    Neel Mukherjee: Fiction Must Be a Quarrel with the Times

    By Hanya Yanagihara  January 11, 2018
    Essay

    Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 10, 2018
    Feature

    Jamie Quatro: How Should a Christian Writer Be?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 9, 2018
    Criticism

    Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

    By Emily Temple  January 9, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

    By Ann Hulbert  January 9, 2018
    Essay

    The Political Power of Translation

    By Chenxin Jiang  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    If It Wasn’t For My Corporate Office Job, I Couldn’t Be a Novelist

    By Jillian Medoff  January 8, 2018
    Essay

    Christopher J. Yates Gave Himself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

    By Christopher J. Yates  January 5, 2018
    Conversations

    Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan on Fake News, Truth-Telling, and What Fiction Can Do

    By Literary Hub  January 4, 2018
    Feature

    Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

    By Danielle Jackson  January 3, 2018
    Essay

    J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

    By J.M. Coetzee  January 2, 2018
    Essay

    Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

    By Maud Casey  January 2, 2018
    Literary Criticism

    Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

    By Ali Smith  December 28, 2017
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