• Literary Criticism

    Archives

    Read Anne Sexton’s Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

    By Emily Temple  November 9, 2017
    Essay

    All the Letters I’ll Never Send

    By Clare Sestanovich  November 9, 2017
    Criticism

    Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

    By Megan Hunter  November 8, 2017
    Criticism

    How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

    By Chris Gavaler  November 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

    By Martin Puchner  November 2, 2017
    Essay

    Finding Refuge in a Queer Vampire Novella

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

    By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2017
    Criticism

    How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

    By Eric Chevillard  October 30, 2017
    Criticism

    The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  October 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 26, 2017
    Essay

    First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

    By M. Sophia Newman  October 26, 2017
    Criticism

    How Kate Tempest Makes “Radical Empathy” More than Just a Buzzword

    By Eleanor Stanford  October 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

    By Naben Ruthnum  October 23, 2017
    Close Reading

    How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

    By Veronica Esposito  October 23, 2017
    Criticism

    On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

    By Sasha Pimentel  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

    By Olivia Campbell  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 17, 2017
    Feature

    14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

    By Emily Temple  October 16, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Ode to Bartleby

    By Elizabeth Hardwick  October 13, 2017
    Criticism

    The New Scream Queens

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  October 13, 2017
    Close Reading

    The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen’s Novels of Love

    By Mikaella Clements  October 13, 2017
    Essay

    Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

    By Andrew O'Hagan  October 12, 2017
    Did you know?

    Jane Austen’s Emma Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

    By Juliette Wells  October 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

    By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney  October 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

    By Ottessa Moshfegh  October 10, 2017
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