• Literary Criticism

    Craft and Criticism

    A Tribute to Beat Writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins

    By Laura Henriksen  April 22, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Books to Help You Think
    Like a Visual Artist

    By Myla Goldberg  April 19, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Simon Critchley on Tragedy: Colluding in Our Calamity

    By Simon Critchley  April 18, 2019
    How to Write

    Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
    and Tobias Wolff

    By Jane Alison  April 18, 2019
    Film and TV

    An Argument for Slowing the
    F*ck Down with War and Peace

    By Natalie Adler  April 17, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Harold Bloom on Wallace Stevens, Young Love, and Old Age

    By Harold Bloom  April 17, 2019
    Politics

    What Does Ulysses Tell Us About
    Pete Buttigieg?

    By Tyler Malone  April 15, 2019
    Religion

    Why Are So Many Fictional Teens
    Entering Cults?

    By Katherine Cusumano  April 15, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  April 15, 2019
    The CIA

    The CIA Scheme That Brought
    Doctor Zhivago to The World

    By Rebecca Renner  April 12, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

    By Rachel Richardson  April 12, 2019
    Millennials?

    Let’s All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a “Millennial Writer”

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2019
    Criticism

    What Do We Really Mean By
    ‘Women’s Fiction’?

    By Rachel Howard  April 10, 2019
    Civil Rights

    Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

    By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
    The West

    Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
    Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

    By Annie Proulx  April 10, 2019
    On Translation

    Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
    of Maxim Osipov

    By Svetlana Alexievich  April 9, 2019
    Film and TV

    Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve‘s Cool Girl Assassin

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 8, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

    By Emily Temple  April 8, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
    a Writer’s Diary

    By Duncan Hannah  April 5, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

    By Emily Temple  April 4, 2019
    Oddities

    Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 2, 2019
    Essay

    James Baldwin Might Have Been Most
    at Home in Istanbul

    By Hilal Isler  March 29, 2019
    Essay

    In Praise of the ‘How To’ Creativity Workbook

    By Evan James  March 27, 2019
    Profile

    Laila Lalami: “I Think Evil Needs to Be Called Out.”

    By Zahra Hankir  March 26, 2019
    Essay

    The Life-Changing Magic of 10 Things I Hate About You

    By Emily Temple  March 26, 2019
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