• Literary Criticism

    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
    Literary History

    Robert Walser and Jean Genet’s Dreams, Solitude, and Mundane Things

    By Moyra Davey  June 17, 2020
    Identities

    Writing a Novel of Things Unattained

    By Zaina Arafat  June 16, 2020
    Gun violence

    On Writing a Collective Poem in Response to Chicago Gun Violence

    By Chris Green  June 16, 2020
    Police

    On Charles Dickens’ Devious, Hypocritical “Nice Guy” Cop

    By Olivia Rutigliano  June 12, 2020
    End Times

    On the Resolute Nihilism of a True End Times Classic

    By Liam Pieper  June 11, 2020
    Trans Rights

    How JK Rowling Betrayed the World
    She Created

    By Gabrielle Bellot  June 10, 2020
    Poets

    On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

    By Jonathan Bate  June 10, 2020
    Craft and Criticism

    How Yusuf Idris’s Stories Upended Respectability Politics in Egypt

    By Ezzedine C. Fishere  June 10, 2020
    War

    Elias Khoury’s Unique Vision of Civil War Lebanon

    By Abdo Wazen  June 9, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian

    By Dave Lucas  June 8, 2020
    Film

    The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

    By Emily Temple  June 8, 2020
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Being Haunted

    By Literary Hub  June 5, 2020
    Brazilian literature

    Why Didn’t “Brazil’s William Faulkner” Achieve the Same International Fame?

    By Padma Viswanathan  June 3, 2020
    Spirituality

    The Interview That Adrienne Rich Never Wanted Published

    By Patrice Vecchione  June 2, 2020
    Women Writers

    How Mary Oppen Rewrote the Role of the Artist’s Wife

    By Abby Walthausen  May 28, 2020
    Criticism

    John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

    By John Domini  May 27, 2020
    Literary History

    The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life

    By Martha Ackmann  May 26, 2020
    Bad Reviews of Good Books

    The 30 Best Bad Amazon Reviews for Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories

    By Emily Temple  May 21, 2020
    Literary History

    The Case of Oscar Wilde’s Mistaken Identity in Naples

    By Renato Miracco  May 21, 2020
    Fascism

    Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

    By Edmund White  May 20, 2020
    End Times

    Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It’s Gone

    By Nancy Wayson Dinan  May 20, 2020
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