• Literary Criticism

    Feature

    Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America’s Soul

    By Veronica Esposito  December 5, 2016
    Poets

    Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

    By Rajat Singh  December 5, 2016
    Criticism

    Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

    By Katharine Noel  December 2, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of ‘Patient Zero,’ and the Book That Started It All

    By Harron Walker  December 1, 2016
    Poets

    Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

    By Michael Denneny  December 1, 2016
    Personal Essay

    The Gifts of Reading Are Many

    By Robert Macfarlane  November 30, 2016
    Deep Dive

    A Feminist Thoreau

    By Rafia Zakaria  November 30, 2016
    Deep Dive

    Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

    By Clare Sestanovich  November 29, 2016
    Deep Dive

    How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

    By Miriam Toews  November 28, 2016
    Poets

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda’s Lost Poems

    By Forrest Gander  November 23, 2016
    Deep Dive

    What Does “Longform” Journalism Really Mean?

    By Brendan Fitzgerald  November 21, 2016
    Essay

    The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  November 18, 2016
    Essay

    Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

    By M. Allen Cunningham  November 17, 2016
    Feature

    Harry Potter is Actually a Great Narrative Frame for Good and Evil

    By Emily Temple  November 15, 2016
    Criticism

    What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

    By Sabina Murray  November 10, 2016
    A Phone Call From Paul

    How We Talk About Women’s Lives

    By Kelcey Parker Ervick  November 9, 2016
    Essay

    A Young Woman Called Death…

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 1, 2016
    Criticism

    On the Perilous Potential of Feminist Silence

    By Carina del Valle Schorske  November 1, 2016
    Essay

    Every House is a Haunted House

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2016
    Essay

    Why We Love to Be Haunted

    By Lyz Lenz  October 31, 2016
    Essay

    Are You an Anne Shirley or an Emily Starr?

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  October 27, 2016
    Feature

    The Publisher Who Rejected Jane Austen

    By Shelley DeWees  October 26, 2016
    Essay

    Has Imbolo Mbue Written the Great American Novel?

    By Aaron Bady  October 26, 2016
    Essay

    Police Violence and the American Caste System

    By Colette Shade  October 25, 2016
    Essay

    The Rise of the Small Press on the Man Booker Shortlist

    By Marta Bausells  October 24, 2016
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