• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

    By MH Rowe  August 16, 2018
    Essay

    Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 14, 2018
    Essay

    A Brief History of Women Mountaineers

    By Susan Froderberg  August 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Zen and the Art of Alan Spence

    By Janice Galloway  August 13, 2018
    Essay

    Untitled

    By Literary Hub  August 10, 2018
    News

    Announcing theMystery.doc Contest Winners

    By Literary Hub  August 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

    By Maryanne Wolf  August 8, 2018
    Close Reading

    The Wind in the Willows Isn’t Really a Children’s Book

    By Peter Hunt  August 8, 2018
    Feature

    Shirley Jackson: Possibly a Witch, Definitely Played the Zither

    By Emily Temple  August 8, 2018
    Criticism

    1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 7, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Breaking Up the Boys Club: On Women in Rare Books

    By Joanna R. Demkiewicz  July 31, 2018
    Deep Dive

    A History of Violence, From Frontier to Family

    By Paula Saunders  July 31, 2018
    Criticism

    Wuthering Heights is a Virgin’s Story, and Other Opinions of Brontë’s Classic

    By Emily Temple  July 30, 2018
    Criticism

    The Legendary Iranian Poet Who Gives Me Hope

    By Jasmin Darznik  July 30, 2018
    Essay

    David Chariandy: ‘Black Canadians Do Not Come From Space.’

    By David Chariandy  July 27, 2018
    Essay

    Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?

    By Evan Fleischer  July 27, 2018
    Criticism

    An English Teacher Wonders: What is Literature Anyway?

    By Christopher Schaberg  July 26, 2018
    Close Reading

    A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written

    By Emily Temple  July 25, 2018
    Essay

    In Praise of “Plain” Heroines: Why Mary is my Favorite Bennet Sister

    By Katherine J. Chen  July 23, 2018
    Excerpts

    Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

    By Boris Fishman  July 23, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

    By John Domini  July 23, 2018
    Deep Dive

    On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories

    By John Mariani  July 20, 2018
    Criticism

    The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer’s Pantheon

    By Eugene Thacker  July 19, 2018
    Deep Dive

    My Book of Men: On the Poetry of Survival

    By Liz Bowen  July 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Can We Salvage of Objectivity?

    By Michiko Kakutani  July 17, 2018
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