• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

    By Matt Gallagher  February 2, 2016
    Essay

    Our Darkest American Masterpiece

    By Dustin Illingworth  January 27, 2016
    Criticism

    One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century

    By Barry Gifford  January 19, 2016
    Design

    A Brief History of Book Illustration

    By Chris Russell  January 14, 2016
    Essay

    A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 4, 2016
    Feature

    Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

    By Devoney Looser  December 23, 2015
    Criticism

    The Importance of Being Orwell

    By Christopher Hitchens  December 22, 2015
    Criticism

    Men Explain Lolita to Me

    By Rebecca Solnit  December 17, 2015
    Criticism

    Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?

    By Michael Fallon  December 15, 2015
    What to Read

    Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  December 14, 2015
    Criticism

    Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2015
    Essay

    A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

    By Matthew Neill Null  December 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Algeria After Camus

    By Namara Smith  December 8, 2015
    Essay

    How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

    By Lorraine Berry  December 4, 2015
    Criticism

    How to Read a Movie Like a Book

    By Bridget Read  December 3, 2015
    Criticism

    When Setting Trumps Character

    By Tobias Carroll  November 23, 2015
    Essay

    80 Books No Woman Should Read

    By Rebecca Solnit  November 18, 2015
    Essay

    Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

    By Lauren Elkin  November 17, 2015
    Essay

    The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  November 16, 2015
    Essay

    Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

    By Lorrie Moore  November 6, 2015
    Feature

    Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

    By Dodie Bellamy  November 6, 2015
    Essay

    Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

    By Noy Holland  November 5, 2015
    Essay

    Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

    By Alison Currie  November 5, 2015
    Essay

    Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

    By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2015
    Essay

    In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel

    By Bridget Read  October 30, 2015
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