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Literary Criticism
In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity
Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| February 5, 2019
Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists
One Writer’s Activism is Another Writer’s Terrorism
By
Tobias Carroll
| February 1, 2019
On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile
Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| January 30, 2019
When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt
Gabrielle Bellot on W.B. Yeats and the Fine Line Between Arrogance and Humility
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| January 28, 2019
Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways
Daisy Johnson on the Limits of the Wholly New
By
Daisy Johnson
| January 25, 2019
How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn
Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart
By
Katharine Smyth
| January 25, 2019
Best Reviewed
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Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story
By
Emily Van Duyne
| January 24, 2019
On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver
By
Jeanna Kadlec
| January 23, 2019
What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath
By
Emily Van Duyne
| January 22, 2019
David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World
Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests
By
David Treuer
| January 22, 2019
John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer
“I write about real people in real places. End of story.”
By
Tyler Malone
| January 17, 2019
How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel
On What It Is to Write About Everyday Life
By
Tessa Hadley
| January 16, 2019
This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch
There's Even a Word For Emotional Labor!
By
Rebecca Romney
| January 15, 2019
A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Jennifer Traig on the Bizarre Violence of Early Kid Lit
By
Jennifer Traig
| January 14, 2019
The Virtue of Giddiness in Art
Rosie Haward on Desire and Dizziness, from Bernini to Adjani
By
Rosie Haward
| January 14, 2019
An Unnecessarily Close Reading of
That
Scene in
Portnoy's Complaint
Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder
By
Emily Temple
| January 11, 2019
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