Criticism

Reading Kobo Abe with One Eye on Edgar Allan Poe

Scott Beauchamp on the Literary Transmission of Mystery

 
By Scott Beauchamp  December 6, 2017
Criticism

The Other Invisibles of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

By Gabrielle Bellot  December 1, 2017
Criticism

As the World Ends, Has the Time for Grieving Arrived?

By Sue Sinclair  December 1, 2017
Criticism

Beyond “Lyric Shame”: Ben Lerner on Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson

By Ben Lerner  November 29, 2017
Criticism

Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot’s Most Underrated Heroine

By Rachel Vorona Cote  November 22, 2017
Criticism

Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

By Megan Hunter  November 8, 2017
Criticism

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

By Chris Gavaler  November 3, 2017
Criticism

How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

By Eric Chevillard  October 30, 2017
Criticism

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

By Kelly Marie Coyne  October 27, 2017
Criticism

How Kate Tempest Makes “Radical Empathy” More than Just a Buzzword

By Eleanor Stanford  October 24, 2017
Close Reading

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

By Veronica Esposito  October 23, 2017
Criticism

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

By Sasha Pimentel  October 20, 2017
Criticism

The New Scream Queens

By Nathan Scott McNamara  October 13, 2017
Criticism

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

By John Biguenet  October 5, 2017
Criticism

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It’s Not Universal

By Sarah LaBrie  October 5, 2017
Criticism

The Prettiest Way to Die

By Christina Newland  October 3, 2017
Criticism

Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

By Hayley Singer  October 2, 2017
Criticism

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

By Craig Hubert  September 29, 2017
Criticism

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

By Gabrielle Bellot  September 29, 2017
Criticism

Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

By Arvind Dilawar  September 22, 2017
Criticism

Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals

By Carina del Valle Schorske  September 19, 2017
Criticism

How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

By Alex Gilvarry  September 11, 2017
Criticism

Rebel in the Rye is Bad for Writers

By Emily Temple  September 8, 2017
Criticism

In a Lonely Place

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 30, 2017
Criticism

How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

By Tobias Carroll  August 21, 2017
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