• Literary Criticism

    Excerpts

    Can We Only Know Ourselves Through Another?

    By Sallie Tisdale  April 15, 2016
    Essay

    Jon Ronson: In Search of the Genuinely New

    By Charles Arrowsmith  April 14, 2016
    Essay

    Memories of a Killing, Visions of a Haunting

    By Scott Cheshire  April 6, 2016
    Criticism

    On Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

    By Bridget Read  April 5, 2016
    Poets

    Kate Atkinson on “Adelstrop”

    By Kate Akinson  April 5, 2016
    Poets

    Helen Macdonald on “Frost at Midnight”

    By Helen Macdonald  April 5, 2016
    Poets

    Margaret Drabble on “Say not the struggle naught availeth”

    By Margaret Drabble  April 5, 2016
    Criticism

    A. L. Kennedy on “Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXVIII”

    By A. L. Kennedy  April 5, 2016
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Itinerant Literate

    By Interview with a Bookstore  April 4, 2016
    Essay

    Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist

    By Lucas Mann  April 1, 2016
    Essay

    Why I Wrote a Novel About Sex Trafficking

    By Jane Mendelsohn  April 1, 2016
    Essay

    Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi

    By Namwali Serpell  April 1, 2016
    Feature

    The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing

    By Literary Hub  March 30, 2016
    Feature

    The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Pre-Ulysses Division

    By Literary Hub  March 30, 2016
    Feature

    The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: The 1980s to Now

    By Literary Hub  March 30, 2016
    Feature

    The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: The Lost Generation and After

    By Literary Hub  March 30, 2016
    Feature

    The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Post-Lolita Division

    By Literary Hub  March 30, 2016
    Essay

    On the 13 Words That Made Me a Writer

    By Sofia Samatar  March 29, 2016
    Essay

    Remembering Susan Sontag’s Final Days

    By Katie Roiphe  March 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    At the Existentialist Café

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 24, 2016
    Essay

    Skateboarding in Fiction: A Brief History of Failure

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  March 24, 2016
    Essay

    The Suicide Note as Literary Genre

    By Dustin Illingworth  March 23, 2016
    Essay

    How to Be a Whaler’s Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

    By Shirley Barrett  March 23, 2016
    Essay

    Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

    By Lisa Levy  March 22, 2016
    Criticism

    Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

    By Tobias Carroll  March 17, 2016
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