Criticism

The Legendary Iranian Poet Who Gives Me Hope

Jasmin Darznik on Forugh Farrokhzad: "The country's most notorious woman."

 
By Jasmin Darznik  July 26, 2018
Criticism

The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer’s Pantheon

By Eugene Thacker  July 19, 2018
Criticism

Watching The Handmaid’s Tale While Transitioning

By Veronica Esposito  July 16, 2018
Criticism

How Can Fiction Predict a Future That’s Already Happening?

By Andromeda Romano-Lax  July 13, 2018
Criticism

Does The Handmaid’s Tale Want Us to Empathize with Ivanka Trump?

By Rachel Vorona Cote  July 12, 2018
Criticism

Not Everyone Loves Proust

By Emily Temple  July 10, 2018
Criticism

Why Was 90s TV Full of Violence Against Women?

By Allison Yarrow  July 9, 2018
Criticism

Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything

By Lyn Hejinian  July 5, 2018
Criticism

Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?

By Emily Temple  July 2, 2018
Criticism

The Enduring Enigma of Véra Nabokov

By Miranda Popkey  June 28, 2018
Criticism

Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

By Kristen Martin  June 27, 2018
Criticism

How Do You Queer the Romantic Comedy?

By Camille Perri  June 18, 2018
Criticism

Havoc: A Cynical (and Personal) Portrayal of Alcoholism

By Morten Høi Jensen  June 18, 2018
Criticism

A Conflicted Feminist Revenge Fantasy for the #MeToo Era

By Eric Thurm  June 5, 2018
Criticism

Why is Bad Behavior So Good?

By Emily Temple  June 4, 2018
Criticism

Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

By Robert Gottlieb  May 31, 2018
Criticism

“If A Clockwork Orange Can Corrupt, Why Not Shakespeare and the Bible?”

By Anthony Burgess  May 30, 2018
Criticism

David Hayden: “Men Still Too Often See Their Writing as the Canon”

By David Hayden  May 25, 2018
Criticism

Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll, and Mystical Poets

By Literary Hub  May 23, 2018
Criticism

The Truth of Ray Bradbury’s Prophetic Vision

By Michael Moorcock  May 18, 2018
Criticism

The Power of W. G. Sebald’s Small Silences

By Nathan Goldman  May 18, 2018
Criticism

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

By George Saunders  May 15, 2018
Criticism

Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

By Lara Feigel  May 10, 2018
Criticism

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

By Tobias Carroll  May 10, 2018
Criticism

The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

By Jennifer Schaffer  May 2, 2018
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