• Literary Criticism

    Racism

    How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

    By Harmony Holiday  April 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

    By Anne Margaret Daniel  April 25, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

    By Adam Kirsch  April 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

    By Brian Francis Slattery  April 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

    By Emily Harnett  April 19, 2017
    Politics

    A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

    By Margot Singer  April 18, 2017
    Poets

    Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

    By Louise Gluck  April 18, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Best Characters Were Dead People

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 17, 2017
    Racism

    Race is the Original American Fiction

    By Andrew Mitchell Davenport  April 13, 2017
    Op-Ed

    In Defense of Worldbuilding

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

    By Vincent Scarpa  April 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Is Your Name Your Destiny?

    By Catherine Buni  April 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn’t Love Me Back

    By Stephanie Powell Watts  April 3, 2017
    Op-Ed

    If Fiction Changes the World, It’s Going to Be YA

    By Emily Temple  March 23, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

    By Victoria Newton Ford  March 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

    By Dion Kagan  March 15, 2017
    Criticism

    When Femininity is Code for Feelings

    By Lynn Steger Strong  March 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

    By Rebecca Solnit  March 8, 2017
    Politics

    Trump in a Toga? On the Lessons (or Lack Therof) in Historical Fiction

    By Veronica Esposito  March 7, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Sinclair Lewis, American Prophet

    By J. M. Henderson  March 6, 2017
    Poets

    The Adolescent Charm of Bad Celebrity Poetry

    By Philippa Snow  March 6, 2017
    Craft and Criticism

    In Praise of Bossy Big Sisters

    By Erika W. Smith  March 3, 2017
    Close Reading

    Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

    By Anna Journey  March 1, 2017
    Deep Dive

    On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 27, 2017
    In Memoriam

    The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Anjali Enjeti  February 27, 2017
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