• Literary Criticism

    Flash Fiction

    13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

    By Grant Faulkner  August 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Dante Alighieri Invented Italy

    By New Books Network  August 21, 2020
    Great Authors

    Growing Up With Ray Bradbury’s Ghost in Waukegan, Illinois

    By Colleen Abel  August 21, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Why You Should Trust Your Reading Instincts (and an Ode to Aimee Bender)

    By So Many Damn Books  August 21, 2020
    Craft

    On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel
    in Threes

    By David Lerner Schwartz  August 20, 2020
    Tennis

    If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

    By Andrea Petkovic  August 20, 2020
    On Craft

    Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

    By Daniel Joshua Rubin  August 19, 2020
    Psychology

    In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

    By Jessica Gross  August 19, 2020
    Craft

    Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

    By Emily Temple  August 18, 2020
    Family Drama

    The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

    By Ellyn A. Lem  August 17, 2020
    Memoir

    Finding Catharsis in the Story
    of a Family Betrayal

    By Darin Strauss  August 17, 2020
    Literary History

    Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

    By Rhian Sasseen  August 17, 2020
    Essays

    Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
    Shakespeare

    Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing

    By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti  August 14, 2020
    Gay Icons

    John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

    By Mark Dery  August 14, 2020
    California

    How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

    By Peter Lunenfeld  August 13, 2020
    Literary Biographies

    Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

    By Ann Jefferson  August 13, 2020
    Family

    Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

    By Rebecca Rukeyser  August 12, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

    By Cree LeFavour  August 12, 2020
    True and Correct Rankings

    40 Hamlets, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  August 11, 2020
    Girlhood

    The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

    By Lisa Selin Davis  August 11, 2020
    Criticism

    When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

    By Melanie Cheng  August 11, 2020
    Memoir

    My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

    By Gretchen Cherington  August 7, 2020
    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Chronic Illness

    On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness… and Chronic Racism

    By Maggie Levantovskaya  August 6, 2020
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