Criticism

On Movies and How to Write About Them

Lili Anolik and Geoff Dyer in Conversation

 
By Literary Hub  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
Awards

31 Books in 30 Days: Michael Schaub on Rachel Kushner

By Literary Hub  March 13, 2019
Criticism

On David Foster Wallace’s Obsession With Failure

By Ryan Lackey  February 21, 2019
Criticism

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

By Gabrielle Bellot  February 5, 2019
Criticism

Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

By Devoney Looser  December 17, 2018
Criticism

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

By James Schamus  December 12, 2018
Criticism

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

By Joshua Sperling  November 26, 2018
Criticism

Simone de Beauvoir: “How Many Bland and Dull Escapist Novels There Are!”

By Simone de Beauvoir  November 9, 2018
Criticism

Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

By Hiroaki Sato  November 5, 2018
Criticism

The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism’s Wake

By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2018
Criticism

Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

By César Aira  October 29, 2018
Criticism

The Masters of Mining Adolescent Experience in Fiction

By Nicole Rivas  October 19, 2018
Close Reading

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

By Mikaella Clements  October 4, 2018
Criticism

Surviving Modern Times: Meditation Through Status Updates

By Matthew Vollmer  September 13, 2018
Criticism

On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

By Wendy Moffat  August 16, 2018
Criticism

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 7, 2018
Criticism

Wuthering Heights is a Virgin’s Story, and Other Opinions of Brontë’s Classic

By Emily Temple  July 30, 2018
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