• Literary Criticism

    Biography

    One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

    By Charles Arrowsmith  September 14, 2016
    Essay

    Real-Life British Spies Did Not Like John Le Carré

    By John le Carré  September 12, 2016
    Essay

    200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews Pride and Prejudice

    By Helen Garner  September 9, 2016
    Essay

    How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

    By Jonathon Sturgeon  September 8, 2016
    Criticism

    Where Is Max Ritvo’s Heaven?

    By M. Sophia Newman  September 7, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 7, 2016
    Criticism

    How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

    By Stephanie Grant  September 7, 2016
    Op-Ed

    Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn’t Need Them

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  September 6, 2016
    Essay

    Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

    By Mario Vargas Llosa  September 6, 2016
    Essay

    Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

    By Gabrielle Bellot  August 31, 2016
    Excerpts

    Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth’s One Big Truth

    By Seamus Heaney  August 30, 2016
    Essay

    How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game

    By M. Sophia Newman  August 26, 2016
    Essay

    Why Can’t Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

    By Brendan Mac Evilly  August 26, 2016
    Op-Ed

    In Defense of Trash

    By Lisa Levy  August 25, 2016
    Novelists

    A Masterpiece of Latin American Literature Finally Appears in English

    By Esther Allen  August 23, 2016
    Criticism

    You’re Probably Misreading Robert Frost’s Most Famous Poem

    By David Orr  August 18, 2016
    Criticism

    Who’s Meaner: Book Critics or Restaurant Reviewers?

    By Literary Hub  August 17, 2016
    Essay

    On Xie Hong, Master of Chinese Unreality

    By Hal Swindall  August 15, 2016
    Feature

    The Dark Side of Office Life

    By Tobias Carroll  August 12, 2016
    Poets

    “Poems R Just Less Popular Memes”

    By Carina del Valle Schorske  August 11, 2016
    Criticism

    The Moral Arc of N.K. Jemisin’s Universe Bends Toward Apocalypse

    By Noah Berlatsky  August 11, 2016
    Essay

    Black Protest Writing, From W.E.B. DuBois to Kendrick Lamar

    By Precious Rasheeda Muhammad  August 10, 2016
    Feature

    Walking a Mile in Daniel Boone’s Moccasins

    By Alix Hawley  August 1, 2016
    Feature

    What The Last Samurai Reveals About American Literary Culture

    By Christina Farella  July 29, 2016
    Feature

    Women Crime Writers Are Not a Fad

    By Lisa Levy  July 29, 2016
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