• Literary Criticism

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    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
    Essay

    Adrian McKinty: Working-Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction

    By Lisa Levy  March 17, 2016
    Essay

    This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

    By Rosalie Knecht  March 15, 2016
    Essay

    Tracey Chevalier: Past President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Club

    By Tracy Chevalier  March 14, 2016
    Essay

    Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard

    By John Freeman  March 10, 2016
    Criticism

    Hidden Stories and Historical Half-truths: Lies Your Ancestors Told You

    By Anita Huslin  March 7, 2016
    Criticism

    The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

    By Devoney Looser  March 4, 2016
    What to Read

    102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  March 4, 2016
    Criticism

    Michel de Montaigne, Time Traveler

    By Hannah Brooks-Motl  February 29, 2016
    Criticism

    Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

    By Kate Jenkins  February 23, 2016
    Essay

    The Fine Grim Line Between Love and Stalking

    By Lisa Levy  February 17, 2016
    Criticism

    When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

    By Emily Harnett  February 17, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: Carmela Ciuraru on Colm Tóibín’s On Elizabeth Bishop

    By Carmela Ciuraru  February 17, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: David Biespiel on Frank Stanford: “Poetry Busts Guts”

    By David Biespiel  February 16, 2016
    Criticism

    30 Books in 30 Days: Mark Athitakis on Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen

    By Mark Athitakis  February 15, 2016
    Criticism

    A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

    By A. O. Scott  February 11, 2016
    Essay

    On Finding Yourself in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri

    By Nandini Balial  February 9, 2016
    Essay

    We Are At Risk of Losing Serious Readers

    By David Denby  February 8, 2016
    Essay

    Kamila Shamsie On Intizar Hussain’s Novel, Basti

    By Kamila Shamsie  February 5, 2016
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