• Literary Criticism

    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2020
    Film

    How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis

    By Lonely Christopher  February 28, 2020
    Queer Identity

    The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

    By Zee Francis  February 28, 2020
    American Classics

    Marcus Mumford on John Steinbeck’s Lessons in Justice and Power

    By Literary Hub  February 27, 2020
    Literary History

    A Glimpse Inside the Best Summer of Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  February 26, 2020
    Marginalia

    A Secret Literary Love Hidden in the Margins of The Price of Salt

    By Antonia Angress  February 25, 2020
    Folklore

    Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

    By Gretel Ehrlich  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    Self-Help?

    Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

    By Chelsea Leu  February 21, 2020
    On Poetry

    On the Lost Lyric Poetry of
    Amelia Earhart

    By Traci Brimhall  February 21, 2020
    La Belle Epoque

    The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

    By Julian Barnes  February 18, 2020
    Valentine's Day

    You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine’s Day

    By Emily Temple  February 14, 2020
    Rereadings

    In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

    By Michelle Chihara  February 14, 2020
    Fascism

    The Graveyard Talks Back:
    Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

    By Arundhati Roy  February 12, 2020
    End Times

    We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill’s World

    By Kristin Iversen  February 11, 2020
    Criticism

    Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

    By Vivian Gornick  February 11, 2020
    Editors

    What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

    By Adrienne Miller  February 11, 2020
    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    Feminism

    Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

    By John Freeman  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    Cities

    How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

    By Sam Wasson  February 7, 2020
    Queer Lit

    Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

    By Catie Disabato  February 7, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
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