• Literary Criticism

    Feature

    Writing Must Explore Its Relation To Power

    By Robert Glück  June 27, 2016
    Feature

    How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

    By Melissa Holbrook Pierson  June 24, 2016
    Feature

    Dante, Auschwitz, and the World Beyond the Sun

    By Louis Begley  June 24, 2016
    Feature

    Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

    By Ning Ken  June 23, 2016
    Essay

    On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women

    By Dorthe Nors  June 22, 2016
    Novelists

    Svetlana Alexievich’s History of Human Feelings

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 22, 2016
    Short story writers

    Dead Dogs Are More Than Metaphors

    By Laura Lampton Scott  June 21, 2016
    Feature

    American Noir and the Outlaw Lit of James Sallis

    By Lisa Levy  June 17, 2016
    Close Reading

    The Man in the Macintosh: One of Literature’s Great Mysteries

    By Tyler Malone  June 16, 2016
    Criticism

    Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 14, 2016
    Essay

    How Hemingway’s Bad Behavior Inspired a Generation

    By Lesley M. M. Blume  June 7, 2016
    Criticism

    Actually, Criticism Is Literature

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 2, 2016
    Poets

    Finding Poems in My Own Labyrinth

    By Emily Carr  May 31, 2016
    Essay

    The Literary Genius of Kendrick Lamar

    By Mensah Demary  May 27, 2016
    Essay

    To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 26, 2016
    Criticism

    Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

    By Joseph Osmundson  May 26, 2016
    Essay

    Actually, All Writers Steal

    By Rufi Thorpe  May 24, 2016
    Feature

    Donald Trump Has Set Fire to America

    By Lyz Lenz  May 24, 2016
    Essay

    Nikki Giovanni on Race, Hope, Fatherhood, and Roots

    By Nikki Giovanni  May 20, 2016
    What to Read

    We Need More First-Hand Books About Urban Poverty

    By Lisa Levy  May 19, 2016
    Essay

    What Does It Mean When We Call Women Girls?

    By Robin Wasserman  May 18, 2016
    Essay

    How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

    By Richard Cohen  May 18, 2016
    Op-Ed

    How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

    By Emily Harnett  May 17, 2016
    Poets

    The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

    By Enrique Vila-Matas  May 17, 2016
    Essay

    How Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love Saved Me

    By Helena Fitzgerald  May 17, 2016
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