• Literary Criticism

    Essay

    Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 17, 2017
    Feature

    14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

    By Emily Temple  October 16, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Ode to Bartleby

    By Elizabeth Hardwick  October 13, 2017
    Criticism

    The New Scream Queens

    By Nathan Scott McNamara  October 13, 2017
    Close Reading

    The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen’s Novels of Love

    By Mikaella Clements  October 13, 2017
    Essay

    Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

    By Andrew O'Hagan  October 12, 2017
    Did you know?

    Jane Austen’s Emma Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

    By Juliette Wells  October 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

    By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney  October 11, 2017
    Deep Dive

    How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

    By Ottessa Moshfegh  October 10, 2017
    Criticism

    Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

    By John Biguenet  October 5, 2017
    Criticism

    If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It’s Not Universal

    By Sarah LaBrie  October 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Death Became Big Business in America

    By Caitlin Doughty  October 4, 2017
    History

    A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

    By Nichole LeFebvre  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    The Prettiest Way to Die

    By Christina Newland  October 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Soul

    By Alejandro Nava  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

    By Hayley Singer  October 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Looking at the World Through My Character’s Eyes

    By Alison Moore  September 29, 2017
    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
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