• Literary Criticism

    Deep Dive

    My Own Personal Herakles

    By Renée Branum  September 29, 2017
    Criticism

    We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 29, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

    By Adrian McKinty  September 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

    By Scott Spencer  September 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Marianne Moore’s Sexist Reception

    By Evan Kindley  September 27, 2017
    Close Reading

    We Can’t Ignore H.P. Lovecraft’s White Supremacy

    By Wes House  September 26, 2017
    Criticism

    Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

    By Arvind Dilawar  September 22, 2017
    Deep Dive

    More than the Beauty or the Heroine

    By Zan Romanoff  September 20, 2017
    Criticism

    Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals

    By Carina del Valle Schorske  September 19, 2017
    Criticism

    How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

    By Alex Gilvarry  September 11, 2017
    Did you know?

    Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

    By Michael Lynn Crews  September 6, 2017
    Poets

    90 Lines For John Ashbery’s 90th Birthday

    By Literary Hub  September 5, 2017
    Essay

    A Formidable Writer, An Exceptional Man: Philip Roth on Richard Stern

    By Philip Roth  September 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Why We Keep Waiting for Godot

    By Shannon Reed  August 30, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Reading Jane Eyre While Black

    By Tyrese L. Coleman  August 28, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Boxing is Always in Crisis: On Joyce Carol Oates, Floyd Mayweather, and Conor McGregor

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 25, 2017
    Essay

    Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy

    By Ayobami Adebayo  August 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Dark, Wondrous Optimism of Ray Bradbury

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 22, 2017
    Close Reading

    The Unreality of Coming of Age

    By Clare Sestanovich  August 21, 2017
    Criticism

    How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

    By Tobias Carroll  August 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Reluctant Spiritual Autobiographer   

    By Adrian Shirk  August 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Pursuing the Artfully Naked “I”: The Myth-Making of Kathy Acker

    By Chris Kraus  August 18, 2017
    Craft

    Air Travel: From Majesty to Drudgery in 100 Years

    By Ellie Robins  August 18, 2017
    Poets

    What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

    By Matthew Zapruder  August 16, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a “Slave”?

    By Peggy Shinner  August 14, 2017
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