• Literary Criticism

    Tributes

    Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Mira Jacob  December 17, 2019
    Criticism

    For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

    By But That's Another Story  December 16, 2019
    Capitalism

    The Rise of the Downfall of
    the Dirtbag Heiress

    By Chelsea Davis  December 13, 2019
    Young Adult

    Rereading the Master of
    ‘Dying Teen’ Lit

    By Katy Hershberger  December 12, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    Virginia Woolf’s Mother Haunts
    Much of Her Writing

    By Gillian Gill  December 12, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

    By Stewart Sinclair  December 12, 2019
    Criticism

    Revelation and Return: Sixty Years of Grace Paley’s The Little Disturbances of Man

    By Justin Taylor  December 11, 2019
    Travel

    A Brief Contemporary History of Nairobi’s Literary House Parties

    By Carey Baraka  December 11, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    How Cleanliness and Beauty Became Intertwined
    in the 18th Century

    By Peter Ward  December 11, 2019
    Biography

    The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

    By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
    On Poetry

    The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom

    By Julie Dobrow  December 11, 2019
    On Whiteness

    Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen

    By Marcos Gonsalez  December 11, 2019
    Nature Writing

    How to Write with Optimism About Nature
    (in a Time of Disaster)

    By Tobias Carroll  December 11, 2019
    Philosophy

    Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2019
    Black Women's Writing

    What Audre Lorde Learned in Berlin About Afro-German Identity

    By Gabrielle Hickmon  December 10, 2019
    Controversies

    Ignoble: On the Trail of Peter Handke’s Bosnian Illusions

    By John Erik Riley  December 9, 2019
    Aesthetics

    Umberto Eco on the Elusive Concept of Ugliness

    By Umberto Eco  December 9, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    The Default of American Fiction Can No Longer Be White and Male

    By Nadeem Zaman  December 9, 2019
    Criticism

    Ophelia and After: Inventing the
    Lonely Literary Woman

    By Cleo Qian  December 6, 2019
    Correspondence

    The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

    By John F. Callahan  December 6, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Unapologetic Politics
    of Howard Fast

    By Mark Harris  December 6, 2019
    Immigration

    Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 5, 2019
    In Memoriam

    On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

    By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
    Literary History

    Walking Through the House Where Louisa May Alcott Wrote Little Women

    By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold  December 2, 2019
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