Criticism

A Brief Survey of the Great American Novel(s)

Do We Need The G.A.N.? Why Do We Keep Looking?

 
By Emily Temple  January 6, 2017
Criticism

The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

By Rachel Vorona Cote  January 5, 2017
Criticism

In Memory of George Michael, In Praise of Mistakes

By Tyler Malone  December 29, 2016
Criticism

Kurt Vonnegut’s Atheist Marvels, Just in Time For Christmas

By Gabrielle Bellot  December 23, 2016
Criticism

Against Nature Writing

By Blair Braverman  December 22, 2016
Criticism

The Art of a Nation Will Outlast Its Governments

By Veronica Esposito  December 19, 2016
Criticism

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

By Emily Harnett  December 15, 2016
Criticism

In Praise of Zadie Smith’s London

By Marta Bausells  December 14, 2016
Criticism

Did America Just Elect Baron Munchausen?

By Tobias Carroll  December 14, 2016
Criticism

On Failing to Write for the Internet

By Laurie Sheck  December 13, 2016
Criticism

Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

By Noah Berlatsky  December 7, 2016
Criticism

Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

By Katharine Noel  December 2, 2016
Criticism

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of ‘Patient Zero,’ and the Book That Started It All

By Harron Walker  December 1, 2016
Criticism

What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

By Sabina Murray  November 10, 2016
A Phone Call From Paul

How We Talk About Women’s Lives

By Kelcey Parker Ervick  November 9, 2016
Criticism

On the Perilous Potential of Feminist Silence

By Carina del Valle Schorske  November 1, 2016
Criticism

In Defense of Bad Best Friends

By Heather Wells Peterson  October 19, 2016
Criticism

How Fiction Treats the Elderly, Aging, and Ancient

By Tobias Carroll  October 18, 2016
Criticism

How Patricia Highsmith’s Mr. Ripley Rises from Genre to Myth

By James Lasdun  October 18, 2016
Criticism

How to Keep Out Death: On the Literature of Crowds

By Dustin Illingworth  October 17, 2016
Criticism

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

By Adam Weiner  October 6, 2016
Criticism

Is “Show Don’t Tell” a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

By Namrata Poddar  September 20, 2016
Criticism

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

By Michael Helm  September 16, 2016
Criticism

Where Is Max Ritvo’s Heaven?

By M. Sophia Newman  September 7, 2016
Criticism

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

By Stephanie Grant  September 7, 2016
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