Criticism

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

 
By Martha Cooley  October 18, 2019
Criticism

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

By Harold Bloom  October 16, 2019
Criticism

Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
Criticism

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

By Slavoj Žižek  September 9, 2019
Criticism

Why ‘Wichita Lineman’ Contains the Greatest Musical Couplet Ever Written

By Dylan Jones  September 6, 2019
Criticism

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

By Kim Adrian  September 6, 2019
Criticism

Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

By Olga Zilberbourg  September 6, 2019
Criticism

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

By Tom Lutz  August 30, 2019
Criticism

My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

By Marcos Gonsalez  August 29, 2019
Criticism

How to Review a Novel

By Mary-Kay Wilmers  August 27, 2019
Criticism

Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

By Lara Vapnyar  August 22, 2019
Criticism

Dear Yusef Komunyakaa:
A Letter From Gregory Pardlo

By Gregory Pardlo  August 19, 2019
Criticism

In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

By Kanako Nishi  August 19, 2019
Criticism

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of ‘Barbaric’

By Walter Benjamin  August 2, 2019
Criticism

Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed
With The Group

By Mikaella Clements  July 23, 2019
Criticism

George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

By Andrew Ervin  July 22, 2019
Criticism

How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

By Thomas Dai  July 17, 2019
Criticism

Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

By Gabrielle Bellot  July 12, 2019
Criticism

On Hunger, Women’s Bodies, and Margaret Atwood’s First Novel

By Lara Williams  July 10, 2019
Criticism

20 Years On, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Empathetic Fiction is a Lesson for All

By Domenico Starnone  June 28, 2019
Criticism

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

By Amanda Rea  June 28, 2019
Criticism

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

By Gabrielle Bellot  June 26, 2019
Criticism

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal’s Long Career

By Catherine Lacey  June 25, 2019
Criticism

On John Wayne, Cancel Culture, and the Art of Problematic Artists

By Tyler Malone  June 21, 2019
Criticism

The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy

By Antonia Pont  June 20, 2019
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