• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    How to Write About Burnout in the Gig Economy

    By Maddie Crum  March 26, 2019
    Criticism

    Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

    By Franco Moretti  March 25, 2019
    Essay

    How Jamaica Kincaid Helped Me Understand My Mother

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 22, 2019
    Feature

    The Lesser Known Life Behind’The Yellow Wallpaper’

    By Greer Macallister  March 21, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Learning From Carolyn Forché’s Fearlessness

    By Beth Kephart  March 20, 2019
    Poets

    On the Poetic Legacy of W.S. Merwin

    By John Freeman  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    The Enduring Appeal of Literary Tricksters

    By Seth Fried  March 19, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Island That Inspired Conrad and Lawrence’s Queerest Characters

    By Jamie James  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

    By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
    Essay

    Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

    By Emily Temple  March 18, 2019
    Excerpts

    The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

    By James Brooke-Smith  March 18, 2019
    Excerpts

    James Joyce’s Dublin, a Microcosm of the World

    By Sarah Baxter  March 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

    By Artemis Leontis  March 15, 2019
    Essay

    Why Do We Hate the Suburbs?

    By Suzannah Lessard  March 14, 2019
    Criticism

    Honoré de Balzac’s Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

    By Emily Temple  March 14, 2019
    Excerpts

    Thankfulness, Praise, and Ross Gay

    By Adam Sol  March 13, 2019
    Awards

    31 Books in 30 Days: Michael Schaub on Rachel Kushner

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2019
    Essay

    When the Eeriness of Trauma Can Only Be Understood Through Fiction

    By Kate Hope Day  March 12, 2019
    Excerpts

    I Blame My First Marriage on Jane Austen

    By Wendy Jones  March 11, 2019
    Essay

    Even If Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Inspires Wonder, Will It Be Enough?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 8, 2019
    Feature

    The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Wuthering Heights

    By Emily Temple  March 8, 2019
    Deep Dive

    Digging in to the Queer Subtext of My Fair Lady

    By Rebecca Renner  March 8, 2019
    Essay

    How Deborah Levy is Getting Me Through New Motherhood

    By Szilvia Molnar  March 7, 2019
    Essay

    Virginia Woolf’s Depression Shouldn’t Define Her

    By Maggie Gee  March 6, 2019
    Essay

    Michael Moorcock on H.G. Wells, Reluctant Prophet

    By Michael Moorcock  March 5, 2019
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