• Literary Criticism

    In Memoriam

    Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

    By Michael Heyward  July 22, 2020
    Fantasy

    On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

     July 21, 2020
    Short Stories

    Five Japanese Authors Share Their Favorite Murakami Short Stories

    By David Karashima  July 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Writing As an
    Act of Distancing

    By Guy Gunaratne  July 20, 2020
    Classics

    The Tenacious Constancy of
    The Merchant of Prato

    By Charles Nicholl  July 20, 2020
    Art and Politics

    When an Iconic Artist is Claimed By Both the Left and the Right

    By Tobias Carroll  July 17, 2020
    Philosophy

    Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics

    By Maren Tova Linett  July 17, 2020
    Autofiction

    On the Diaries of Helen Garner and the Quagmire of the Fictionalized Self

    By Madeleine Watts  July 16, 2020
    Native American Lit

    On Shapes of Native Nonfiction and the Story Form of
    Native Basketry

    By Literary Hub  July 16, 2020
    Criticism

    Joshua Bennett on the Use of Animals in the Work of Black Writers

    By Joshua Bennett  July 13, 2020
    Genre

    On Being a Young Reader Attracted to the Darkest
    Possible Stories

    By Estelle Laure  July 13, 2020
    Community

    Philosophies of Distance and Proximity: Who Are We When We’re Alone?

    By Corina Stan  July 9, 2020
    Art and Politics

    ‘Have You Considered Socialism?’ Or, The Politics of Fictional Characters

    By Andrew Martin  July 8, 2020
    Lit Crit

    On Louise Erdrich, and Salvaging Wisdom From Absurdity and Injustice

    By James P. Lenfestey  July 6, 2020
    Poets

    Even Seamus Heaney
    Made Mistakes

    By Erica McAlpine  July 6, 2020
    Criticism

    Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter’s Writing Means to Her

    By Claire G. Coleman  July 6, 2020
    Happy Pride

    Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay

    By Rabih Alameddine  June 26, 2020
    Literary History

    Remembering Bo Huston, Who Bore Witness to the Peak of the AIDS Crisis

    By John McIntyre  June 26, 2020
    Time

    On Orlando, and Virginia Woolf’s Defiance of Time

    By Theodore Martin  June 25, 2020
    Feminist History

    Vivian Gornick on the “Forgotten” Wife of Victorian Novelist, George Meredith

    By Vivian Gornick  June 24, 2020
    Translation

    Encountering Hervé Guibert’s Anti-Utopian Men

    By Jeffrey Zuckerman  June 22, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Celebrating Yahya Hassan,
    Poet, Rebel

    By Jamal Mahjoub  June 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Delight is Essential: On Reading Ross Gay in Terrible Times

    By Sara B. Franklin  June 18, 2020
    Classics

    An Ode to Valley of the Dolls, Irresistible Train Wreck

    By Stephen Rebello  June 18, 2020
    Audiobooks

    In Utter Celebration of Juliet Stevenson’s Brilliance as an Audiobook Narrator

    By Scott Spencer  June 17, 2020
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