Deep Dive

Why Are There Two Distinct Ways of Writing Norwegian?

The Curious Case of Nynorsk vs. Bokmål

 
By Jessica Furseth  February 28, 2018
Deep Dive

Why the Hardliners of the World Fear the Word

By Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir  February 15, 2018
Criticism

The Surprising, Unorthodox Media Criticism of High Maintenance

By Eric Thurm  February 12, 2018
Deep Dive

The Dream of 2011 is Dead: Portlandia Comes to an End

By Eric Thurm  February 2, 2018
Deep Dive

How Politicians Use the Civil Rights Movement to Obscure Ongoing Racism

By Jeanne Theoharis  February 2, 2018
Deep Dive

Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

By Nathan Scott McNamara  January 24, 2018
Deep Dive

The Worst of Times: Our Year in Irreality

By John Freeman  January 19, 2018
Criticism

Can Speculative Short Fiction Really Work on TV?

By Eric Thurm  January 19, 2018
Criticism

The Literature of Bad Sex

By Hermione Hoby  January 18, 2018
Deep Dive

Where Can Hollywood’s Reboot Obsession Go From Here?

By Eric Thurm  December 28, 2017
Deep Dive

Real Gratitude Shouldn’t Be Easy: On It’s a Wonderful Life

By Emily Harnett  December 22, 2017
Deep Dive

Making the Jump from Stage to Page

By Kia Corthron  December 15, 2017
Deep Dive

Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine

By Tracy O'Neill  December 14, 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
Deep Dive

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI

By Kirsten Menger-Anderson  November 30, 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
Deep Dive

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

By Martha Collins  November 13, 2017
Deep Dive

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

By Marion Rankine  November 10, 2017
Deep Dive

Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

By Tyler Malone  October 31, 2017
Deep Dive

Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It

By Gabrielle Bellot  October 26, 2017
Deep Dive

America’s Enduring Pastime: Baseball, Misogyny, and Reading The Natural

By Sara Nović  October 24, 2017
Criticism

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

By Sasha Pimentel  October 20, 2017
Deep Dive

Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Ode to Bartleby

By Elizabeth Hardwick  October 13, 2017
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