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Literary Criticism
14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors
"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."
By
Emily Temple
| October 16, 2017
Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick's Ode to Bartleby
An "Incurious Ghost" Who Would Really Prefer Not To
By
Elizabeth Hardwick
| October 13, 2017
The New Scream Queens
Four Story Collections at the Intersection of Feminism and Horror
By
Nathan Scott McNamara
| October 13, 2017
The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen's Novels of Love
The Call is Coming From Inside the Country Estate
By
Mikaella Clements
| October 13, 2017
Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online
"The Internet Offers a Secret Life to Everybody"
By
Andrew O'Hagan
| October 12, 2017
Jane Austen's
Emma
Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop
On the Early Reception of a Classic Novel, on Both Sides of the Atlantic
By
Juliette Wells
| October 11, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers
By
Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney
| October 11, 2017
How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds
By
Ottessa Moshfegh
| October 10, 2017
Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?
By
John Biguenet
| October 5, 2017
If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal
Why Writing and Reading About Race is a Privilege, Not a Burden
By
Sarah LaBrie
| October 5, 2017
How Death Became Big Business in America
And Why We Need to Be Less Dismissive of Other Cultures' Funeral Rituals
By
Caitlin Doughty
| October 4, 2017
A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the
Letters
Cover Controversy
What Do We Look For in a Literary Icon?
By
Nichole LeFebvre
| October 3, 2017
The Prettiest Way to Die
Consumption Chic and the 19th-Century Cult of the Invalid
By
Christina Newland
| October 3, 2017
Ralph Ellison's Tragicomic Soul
"Shit, Grit, and Mother Wit”
By
Alejandro Nava
| October 3, 2017
Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals
"Determining Whose Life is Grievable is an Act of Framing"
By
Hayley Singer
| October 2, 2017
Looking at the World Through My Character's Eyes
On Roleplaying as Research
By
Alison Moore
| September 29, 2017
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Stephen King
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"