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Literary Criticism
A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written
From Your Resident Donald Barthelme Stan
By
Emily Temple
| July 25, 2018
In Praise of "Plain" Heroines: Why Mary is my Favorite Bennet Sister
She May Be Bookish, But She's Not Quiet
By
Katherine J. Chen
| July 23, 2018
Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong
Boris Fishman Wonders, What Would Chekhov Say of Vladimir Putin?
By
Boris Fishman
| July 23, 2018
Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918
Katherine Anne Porter's
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
, a Novel of Now
By
John Domini
| July 23, 2018
On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories
Looking Past the Biography, at the Sentences Themselves
By
John Mariani
| July 20, 2018
The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer's Pantheon
Emil Cioran, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Other Funsters
By
Eugene Thacker
| July 19, 2018
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Liz Bowen
| July 18, 2018
What Can We Salvage of Objectivity?
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Michiko Kakutani
| July 17, 2018
The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of
The Catcher in the Rye
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Emily Temple
| July 16, 2018
Watching
The Handmaid's Tale
While Transitioning
Veronica Esposito on Encountering Misogyny in a New Way
By
Veronica Esposito
| July 16, 2018
Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need
Diana Gabaldon on a Neglected Classic by John Rollin Ridge
By
Diana Gabaldon
| July 16, 2018
How Can Fiction Predict a Future That's Already Happening?
Andromeda Romano-Lax on the Real Stakes of Speculative Fiction
By
Andromeda Romano-Lax
| July 13, 2018
Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel
"These Additions, My Agent Noted, Were Not Very Good"
By
Andrew Martin
| July 10, 2018
Not Everyone Loves Proust
Crushingly dull. Rather infantile. A mental defective?
By
Emily Temple
| July 10, 2018
Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything
An Essay on Fending Off Chaos
By
Lyn Hejinian
| July 5, 2018
Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?
From Jesus-Figure to Incestuous Impulses, 13 Critics Weigh In
By
Emily Temple
| July 2, 2018
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