Criticism

Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

Safiya Sinclair on Ferguson Report: An Erasure

 
By Safiya Sinclair  July 24, 2023
Criticism

How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America

By Brian K. Goodman  July 5, 2023
Criticism

Diana Goetsch on How Elena Ferrante and Milan Kundera Helped Her Write a Memoir

By Diana Goetsch  June 26, 2023
Criticism

From Servant to Sidekick: The “Black Friend,” Then and Now

By Aisha Harris  June 15, 2023
Criticism

How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other

By Jane Smiley  June 6, 2023
Criticism

“Every Border is a Story.” On Dividing Lines Both Real and Imagined

By James Crawford  May 3, 2023
Criticism

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

By David Sexton  April 26, 2023
Criticism

What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

By Dasha Kiper  March 23, 2023
Criticism

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

By Christiane Blot-Labarrère  March 22, 2023
Criticism

Why Fig Pollination and Literary Criticism Have a Lot in Common

By A. V. Marraccini  February 24, 2023
Criticism

On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

By Will Cathcart  January 5, 2023
Criticism

The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2022

By Adam Morgan  December 19, 2022
Criticism

Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published

By Jed Rasula  December 8, 2022
Criticism

Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

By Emily Van Duyne  November 17, 2022
Criticism

Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What Is to Be Done About Literary Moralism?

By A. Natasha Joukovsky  October 13, 2022
Criticism

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

By Elias Canetti  October 5, 2022
Criticism

Mario Vargas Llosa on Retrospective, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

By Mario Vargas Llosa  September 23, 2022
Criticism

Does Care Require Sacrifice? On Suffering and Dignity in Elif Batuman’s Either/Or

By Catherine Nichols  May 26, 2022
Criticism

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

By Nicole Miller  May 17, 2022
Criticism

Where Are All the Matriarchies in Fiction?

By G.R. Macallister  April 18, 2022
Criticism

Why the Color Red Carries so Much Weight in Film and Literature

By James Fox  April 12, 2022
Criticism

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

By Anthony Domestico  February 16, 2022
Criticism

We Will Always Need Virginia Woolf: A Common Reader’s Defense

By Emma Knight  January 25, 2022
Criticism

Stories vs Ideas:
Finding Something Deeply Personal in the Philosophical Novel

By David Hollander  January 13, 2022
Criticism

The Weaponization of Quiet: On the Subtle Horror of Ayşegül Savaş’s White on White

By Francesca Giacco  December 21, 2021
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