Criticism

How to Review a Novel

London Review of Books Editor Mary-Kay Wilmers
on the Language of Criticism

 
By Mary-Kay Wilmers  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
Criticism

On Movies and How to Write About Them

By Literary Hub  June 17, 2019
Criticism

The Hero We Need: Keanu Reeves is Demolishing All Our Dumb Stereotypes

By Marjorie Liu  June 14, 2019
Criticism

Elisa Gabbert Doesn’t Like Television

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 29, 2019
Criticism

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
How to Avoid Them

By Jay A. Fernandez  May 21, 2019
Criticism

Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds

By Javier Zamora  April 12, 2019
Criticism

What Do We Really Mean By
‘Women’s Fiction’?

By Rachel Howard  April 10, 2019
Criticism

Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

By Franco Moretti  March 25, 2019
Criticism

The Enduring Appeal of Literary Tricksters

By Seth Fried  March 19, 2019
Criticism

Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
Criticism

Honoré de Balzac’s Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

By Emily Temple  March 14, 2019
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