Criticism

On Melville, Mendacity, and Letting the Unknowable Find Its Way in Your Writing

David Kirby Plumbs the Uncertain Depths of Art and Truth

 
By David Kirby  December 3, 2021
Criticism

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

By Stephen Marche  September 15, 2021
Criticism

In Celebration of Laurie Colwin’s Lost Manhattan

By Bethanne Patrick  September 13, 2021
Criticism

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
Criticism

On Finally Being Old Enough
to Love Proust

By Adam Bonislawski  August 25, 2021
Criticism

In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

By Jessie Gaynor  August 18, 2021
Criticism

Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

By Andrew DeYoung  August 17, 2021
Criticism

On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

By Kyle Beachy  August 11, 2021
Criticism

A World Beyond Our Skin: Jenny Erpenbeck and the Potential of Fiction

By Robert Rubsam  July 9, 2021
Criticism

The Twisted Dream of Home Ownership in Tana French’s Novels

By Nora Caplan-Bricker  May 17, 2021
Criticism

Why Are Female Stutterers Such a Rarity in Literature?

By Sophia Stewart  April 2, 2021
Criticism

Gabriel García Márquez: On Taking Writers at Their Word

By Gabriel García Márquez  November 2, 2020
Criticism

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
First Novel

By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
Criticism

On the Unexpected Hopefulness of Don DeLillo’s The Silence

By Alexander Sammartino  October 19, 2020
Criticism

The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

By James K.A. Smith  October 16, 2020
Criticism

How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

By John Freeman  October 6, 2020
Criticism

A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

By Jamieson Webster  October 2, 2020
Criticism

A Brief (But Not Too) History of
Literary Constipation

By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
Criticism

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

By Kerry Greenwood  September 21, 2020
Criticism

On the Upstart NYC Alt Weekly That Gave Us Armond White

By Jim Knipfel  August 24, 2020
Criticism

When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

By Melanie Cheng  August 11, 2020
Criticism

Joshua Bennett on the Use of Animals in the Work of Black Writers

By Joshua Bennett  July 13, 2020
Criticism

Claire G. Coleman on What Dorothy Porter’s Writing Means to Her

By Claire G. Coleman  July 6, 2020
Criticism

John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

By John Domini  May 27, 2020
Criticism

The Internet Novel Is As Chaotic As Your Twitter Feed

By Maddie Crum  May 1, 2020
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