• Literary Criticism

    Close Reading

    How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson’s Poems After She Died?

    By Julie Dobrow  November 8, 2018
    Deep Dive

    The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Fiction

    By Veronica Esposito  November 8, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

    By Eric Karpeles  November 7, 2018
    Criticism

    Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

    By Hiroaki Sato  November 5, 2018
    Feature

    Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 2, 2018
    Essay

    The Avid Reader: Sandra Cisneros on Elena Poniatowska

    By Sandra Cisneros  November 1, 2018
    Criticism

    The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism’s Wake

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Much Did James Joyce Base “The Dead” on His Own Family?

    By Colm Tóibín  October 30, 2018
    Essay

    Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

    By J.W. McCormack  October 30, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Radical Moralist: On Lionel Trilling’s Literary Criticism

    By Adam Kirsch  October 30, 2018
    Criticism

    Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

    By César Aira  October 29, 2018
    Essay

    In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

    By Laird Hunt  October 29, 2018
    Essay

    The Year I Stopped Reading White People

    By Jerome Blanco  October 24, 2018
    Essay

    The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath

    By Paul Alexander  October 23, 2018
    Archives

    The Vulnerable Private Writings of Ernest Hemingway

    By Sandra Spanier  October 23, 2018
    Essay

    Amy Bloom on the Legacy of Thom Jones

    By Amy Bloom  October 18, 2018
    Feature

    Why America’s Best Political Novelist Is Required Reading in 2018

    By Susan Zakin  October 17, 2018
    Essay

    Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

    By Viv Groskop  October 16, 2018
    Essay

    Passing for White: A Literary History

    By Darryl Pinckney  October 15, 2018
    Essay

    On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

    By André Naffis-Sahely  October 12, 2018
    Essay

    The Beats’ Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired On the Road

    By David L. Ulin  October 5, 2018
    Essay

    When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

    By Michael Donkor  October 5, 2018
    Close Reading

    The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

    By Mikaella Clements  October 4, 2018
    Advice

    The Avid Reader: Helen Simpson on Anton Chekhov’s “Oysters”

    By Helen Simpson  October 4, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Dry-Eyed Mourning of Gary Indiana

    By Sarah Nicole Prickett  October 4, 2018
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