literary criticism

Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots

Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy

 
By Anthony Giardina  January 15, 2025
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Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

By Lauren Groff  January 7, 2025
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“Make it New… Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

By Ryan Ruby  November 22, 2024
literary criticism

Visions of Apocalypse: How Gravity’s Rainbow Embodied America’s Post-War Fears

By Jonathan Rosenbaum  November 5, 2024
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“A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

By Joyce Carol Oates  October 15, 2024
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Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay  September 4, 2024
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“A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

By Snowden Wright  August 14, 2024
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The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

By Sophie Brickman  August 6, 2024
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Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín

By Yiyun Li  July 17, 2024
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Joy Williams on the Wild, Lyrical Stories of Brad Watson

By Joy Williams  July 16, 2024
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What Medieval Poets Can Teach Us About Climate Change, and What Evangelicals Today Get Wrong

By Eleanor Johnson  April 22, 2024
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A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
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The Barbara Comyns Novel That Got Too Real About Poverty, Giving Birth, and Women’s Lives

By Avril Horner  March 14, 2024
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A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

By Ed Simon  February 5, 2024
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Puzzlement Over Answers: On Fiction as a Mode of Inquiry

By Mary Lane Potter  January 19, 2024
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The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2023

By Adam Morgan  December 11, 2023
literary criticism

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

By Marion Turner  December 11, 2023
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The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon

By Jessie Gaynor  October 11, 2023
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Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

By Philip Metres  October 10, 2023
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Why the Bible is the Literary Book of Books

By David Keenan  March 27, 2023
literary criticism

A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard

By Lynn Steger Strong  November 8, 2022
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Annie Proulx Revisits William Golding’s Rites of Passage

By Annie Proulx  June 17, 2022
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