• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Watching The Handmaid’s Tale While Transitioning

    By Veronica Esposito  July 16, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

    By Diana Gabaldon  July 16, 2018
    Criticism

    How Can Fiction Predict a Future That’s Already Happening?

    By Andromeda Romano-Lax  July 13, 2018
    Essay

    Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

    By Andrew Martin  July 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Not Everyone Loves Proust

    By Emily Temple  July 10, 2018
    Criticism

    Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything

    By Lyn Hejinian  July 5, 2018
    Criticism

    Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?

    By Emily Temple  July 2, 2018
    Awards

    Will a Woman Writer Win Italy’s Strega Prize This Year?

    By Jeanne Bonner  July 2, 2018
    Essay

    Why James Baldwin Went to the South and What It Meant to Him

    By Ed Pavlić  June 29, 2018
    Criticism

    The Enduring Enigma of Véra Nabokov

    By Miranda Popkey  June 28, 2018
    Criticism

    Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

    By Kristen Martin  June 27, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Richard Flanagan on Social Media and the Death of a Private Life

    By Richard Flanagan  June 21, 2018
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the ‘Censored’ Passages of The Picture of Dorian Gray

    By Emily Temple  June 20, 2018
    Close Reading

    Djuna Barnes: “The Most Famous Unknown of the Century!”

    By Ruth Joffre  June 18, 2018
    Criticism

    Havoc: A Cynical (and Personal) Portrayal of Alcoholism

    By Morten Høi Jensen  June 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    Penelope Lively on Virginia Woolf: Serious Gardener?

    By Penelope Lively  June 14, 2018
    Close Reading

    The 1961 Novel That Makes a Great Case for Moviegoing

    By Nick Ripatrazone  June 14, 2018
    Craft and Criticism

    Stephen King: Master of Almost All the Genres Except “Literary”

    By Douglas E. Cowan  June 13, 2018
    Criticism

    A Conflicted Feminist Revenge Fantasy for the #MeToo Era

    By Eric Thurm  June 5, 2018
    Criticism

    Why is Bad Behavior So Good?

    By Emily Temple  June 4, 2018
    Deep Dive

    The Maternal, Feminist Utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    By Michael Robertson  June 4, 2018
    Essay

    The Nightmarish Dream Logic of Bruno Schulz

    By Joe Fletcher  June 1, 2018
    Deep Dive

    When Walt Whitman’s Poems Were Rejected For Being Too Timely

    By Emily Temple  May 31, 2018
    Criticism

    Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

    By Robert Gottlieb  May 31, 2018
    Essay

    Is This the Year Dag Solstad Becomes a Household Name?

    By Veronica Esposito  May 30, 2018
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