• Literary Criticism

    Westerns

    On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America’s Surreal Borderlands

    By Mike Soto  August 26, 2020
    Indigenous Lit

    Joy Harjo on the Diverse, Groundbreaking World of Indigenous Poetry

    By Joy Harjo  August 26, 2020
    Adaptations

    Was The Graduate Inspired by a Brontë Family Scandal?

    By Finola Austin  August 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Do we really need another book about Henry David Thoreau?

    By Jonny Diamond  August 25, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Rediscovering Drawing During Lockdown

    By David Farrier  August 25, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir, Read by Rosalyn Landor

    By Behind the Mic   August 25, 2020
    The History of Literature

    What Does Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Offer Readers Today?

    By History of Literature  August 24, 2020
    Migrations

    In Life as in Mythology, Greece is a Place of Frustrated Migrations

    By Matteo Nucci  August 24, 2020
    First Draft

    Benjamin Nugent on Writing About Male Privilege After #MeToo

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 24, 2020
    Classic Novels

    Dear Catcher in the Rye:
    A Love Letter

    By Mary O'Connell  August 21, 2020
    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
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