• Literary Criticism

    Criticism

    Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles’s First Novel

    By Chris Kraus  May 31, 2017
    Close Reading

    I Found My Family in Jesus’ Son

    By James Boice  May 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

    By Conor Higgins  May 25, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

    By Lorraine Berry  May 24, 2017
    Close Reading

    In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

    By Theodore McCombs  May 24, 2017
    Deep Dive

    We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

    By Veronica Esposito  May 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

    By Buzz Poole  May 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    Americans in Search of Utopia

    By Betsy Hartmann  May 22, 2017
    Op-Ed

    Why We Do Need Another Adaptation of Little Women

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  May 19, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Queering the “I”: On First-Person LGBTQ Narratives

    By Ilana Masad  May 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

    By Philippa Snow  May 18, 2017
    Criticism

    In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More…

    By Literary Hub  May 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Price Tag of Being a Woman

    By Melynda Fuller  May 17, 2017
    Deep Dive

    In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

    By Aaron Bady  May 15, 2017
    Politics

    The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 10, 2017
    What to Read

    On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

    By Veronica Esposito  May 9, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 3, 2017
    Close Reading

    What I’d Die for You Tells Us About Fitzgerald’s Troubled Final Years

    By Cody Delistraty  May 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

    By Helena Kelly  May 3, 2017
    Politics

    The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

    By Amanda Arnold  May 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2017
    Racism

    How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

    By Harmony Holiday  April 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  April 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

    By Adam Kirsch  April 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

    By Brian Francis Slattery  April 21, 2017
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