Criticism

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

On the Impossible Allure of First Person Narcissists

 
By Stephanie Grant  September 7, 2016
Criticism

I Love Soap Operas (And They Made Me a Better Writer)

By Deborah Shapiro  August 29, 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
Criticism

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

By Noah Berlatsky  August 11, 2016
Criticism

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

By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 14, 2016
Criticism

Actually, Criticism Is Literature

By Jonathan Russell Clark  June 2, 2016
Criticism

Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

By Joseph Osmundson  May 26, 2016
Criticism

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

By Bethanne Patrick  May 13, 2016
Criticism

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody’s Little Sister

By Juliane Okot Bitek  April 25, 2016
Close Reading

If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

By Lyndsay Faye  April 21, 2016
Criticism

Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

By Bridget Read  April 21, 2016
Criticism

Searching for Salvation in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 21, 2016
Criticism

On Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

By Bridget Read  April 5, 2016
Criticism

A. L. Kennedy on “Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXVIII”

By A. L. Kennedy  April 5, 2016
Criticism

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

By Tobias Carroll  March 17, 2016
Criticism

Hidden Stories and Historical Half-truths: Lies Your Ancestors Told You

By Anita Huslin  March 7, 2016
Criticism

The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

By Devoney Looser  March 4, 2016
Criticism

Michel de Montaigne, Time Traveler

By Hannah Brooks-Motl  February 29, 2016
Criticism

Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

By Kate Jenkins  February 23, 2016
Criticism

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

By Emily Harnett  February 17, 2016
Criticism

30 Books in 30 Days: Mark Athitakis on Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen

By Mark Athitakis  February 15, 2016
Criticism

A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

By A. O. Scott  February 11, 2016
Criticism

One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century

By Barry Gifford  January 19, 2016
Criticism

The Importance of Being Orwell

By Christopher Hitchens  December 22, 2015
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