Deep Dive

On James Baldwin’s Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

The Making of an Iconic Essayist

 
By Ed Pavlić  December 7, 2018
Deep Dive

Of Willa Cather’s Lasting Love For the Frontier

By Catherine Pond  December 7, 2018
Deep Dive

Looking for God in the Writing of Denis Johnson

By Aaron Thier  December 5, 2018
Deep Dive

What Was Virginia Woolf Looking for in the Night Sky?

By Josh Wilbur  December 4, 2018
Close Reading

Revisiting the Genius of Middlemarch

By John Mullan  November 21, 2018
Deep Dive

Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was Sula

By Gwen Aviles  November 19, 2018
Deep Dive

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

By Brian Laidlaw  November 9, 2018
Deep Dive

How Kazuo Ishiguro Used “Dream Techniques” to Write His Most Polarizing Novel

By Emily Temple  November 8, 2018
Deep Dive

The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Fiction

By Veronica Esposito  November 8, 2018
Deep Dive

The Man Who Made Science Fiction What It Is Today

By Alec Nevala-Lee  November 7, 2018
Archives

The Vulnerable Private Writings of Ernest Hemingway

By Sandra Spanier  October 23, 2018
Deep Dive

Did the Creator of The Twilight Zone Plagiarize Ray Bradbury?

By Emily Temple  October 2, 2018
Deep Dive

Kafka’s Last Wish, Brod’s First Betrayal

By Benjamin Balint  September 18, 2018
Deep Dive

Lisa Hanawalt: Drawing Progressive Westerns from the Horse’s Perspective

By Michelle Delgado  September 18, 2018
Deep Dive

How The Left Hand of Darkness Changed Everything

By Becky Chambers  September 10, 2018
Deep Dive

What Kind of Personality Type Was Truman Capote?

By Merve Emre  September 5, 2018
Deep Dive

Getting Inside the Mind of a Plagiarist

By Kevin Young  September 5, 2018
Deep Dive

Why Don’t More Boys Read Little Women?

By Anne Boyd Rioux  August 17, 2018
Deep Dive

Is Atheism the Last Unforgivable Sin of American Politics?

By Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore  August 16, 2018
Criticism

On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

By Wendy Moffat  August 16, 2018
Close Reading

The Wind in the Willows Isn’t Really a Children’s Book

By Peter Hunt  August 8, 2018
Deep Dive

On the Eerie Prescience of a Nazi-Era Diarist

By Daniel Crown  August 6, 2018
Deep Dive

Why Do Americans Read so Few Books in Translation?

By Gabriella Page-Fort  August 3, 2018
Deep Dive

Breaking Up the Boys Club: On Women in Rare Books

By Joanna R. Demkiewicz  July 31, 2018
Deep Dive

A History of Violence, From Frontier to Family

By Paula Saunders  July 31, 2018
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