• Literary Criticism

    Controversies

    Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

    By John Erik Riley  December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male

    By Nadeem Zaman  December 9, 2019
    Criticism

    Ophelia and After: Inventing the
    Lonely Literary Woman

    By Cleo Qian  December 6, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

    By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unapologetic Politics
    of Howard Fast

    By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
    Immigration

    Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

    By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
    Political History

    Remember, Remember Where the Word ‘Guy’ Comes From

    By Allan Metcalf  November 27, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Six Novels That Capture Detroit, Past and Present

    By Jodie Adams Kirshner  November 27, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

    By Ali Araghi  November 26, 2019
    Parenting

    Two Graphic Novels Ask:
    Why Have Children in an Uncertain World?

    By Michelle Delgado  November 25, 2019
    Travel

    Meditations on a Sunday Morning While Driving on Sunset Boulevard

    By Sam Farahmand  November 25, 2019
    Publishing

    Naguib Mahfouz’s Daughter Fights to Preserve Her Father’s Legacy

    By Karim Zidan  November 25, 2019
    Goths

    The Long History of Afrogoth, from Toni Morrison to M. Lamar

    By Literary Hub  November 25, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse

    By Alyssa Hull  November 22, 2019
    Unexpected Outcomes

    How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

    By Norman Lebrecht  November 22, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Is the Debutante One of the Most Misunderstood Characters in Literature?

    By Maitreyi Anantharaman  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

    By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

    By Nina MacLaughlin  November 20, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
    Political Poetry

    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    Influences

    On the Books That Most Influenced the Great David Bowie

    By John O'Connell  November 19, 2019
    Prison memoir

    Reading Albert Woodfox’s Solitary While Being Detained at Guantánamo

    By Literary Hub  November 19, 2019
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