Before the Fourth Wall: Reading “New World Drama”
If the theatrical performances of colonial America looked different than those of our own, did they mean something different, too?
If the theatrical performances of colonial America looked different than those of our own, did they mean something different, too?
Duncan FahertyJan 16, 2015
Discussions of films, or books, or comics seem to inevitably turn into discussions about accreditation.
Noah BerlatskyDec 31, 2014
Racial passing shows that “race” is both socially constructed and, as experienced, extremely meaningful.
Lucy McKeonDec 5, 2014
Susan Sontag’s entire digital life is now available to researchers. What should they do with it?
Jeremy Schmidt, Jacquelyn ArdamOct 26, 2014
Daniel Olivas has been interviewing everyone who is anyone in Latino/a Literature.
Carribean FragozaJun 8, 2014
Now that Salinger is gone, people can freely reminisce.
Molly PuldaJun 3, 2014
What do English professors do with literature? And what might the next era of literary scholarship look like?
Jordan Alexander SteinMay 1, 2014
Sandra Swinburne reviews Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s essay collection that brims with intimate glimpses.
Sandra SwinburneApr 26, 2014
Greg Barnhisel reviews the letters of the literary eminence Malcolm Cowley.
Greg BarnhiselApr 22, 2014
The small, lovely, but difficult, ways human beings heal in a world rife with mistakes and misjudgments, wrongdoing and despair.
James Bernard FrostApr 9, 2014
Honoring the literary life
Drew CalvertMar 14, 2014
Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley shared a long friendship as well as a belief in the religious philosophy of Vendanta. The writers’ connection...
Katherine BucknellFeb 28, 2014
Which books does Wendy Lesser love best? J.C. Hallman finds out ...
J. C. HallmanFeb 27, 2014
Tally proposes many specific interpretations of Vonnegut's novels, though his ultimate motive is to lay the broad foundation for ongoing critical...
Wilson Taylor, Matthew GannonFeb 27, 2014
The 150th birthday of Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy has many celebrating, and debating, his legacy.
Karen Van DyckFeb 16, 2014
Henry Giardina on the biography of Carl Van Vechten, a controversial figure of the early modernist movement.
Henry GiardinaFeb 16, 2014
EARLY IN “Does Consciousness Exist?” (1904), one of the foundational essays of radical empiricism, William James calls “experience” a “double-barrelle...
Nicholas GaskillFeb 14, 2014
The following article by John Rechy is from the new LARB Quarterly Journal: Winter 2014 issue. The Journal is now available in bookstores for $12...
John RechyFeb 9, 2014
DURING A LONG, misogynistic, masochistic tirade early in his eponymous play, Hamlet accuses himself of being a coward who “Must, like a whore...
Andrew LanhamFeb 8, 2014
One of the most extraordinary elegiac conversations of our time.
Nina MartyrisJan 28, 2014
The 200th anniversary of Mansfield Park and the 100th anniversary of the debate about Austen’s feminism.
Devoney LooserJan 20, 2014
The portrait of Hemingway that emerges from his letters is ambitious and confident, red-blooded and popular, disciplined and talented.
Joshua KotinJan 1, 2014
The novel as event
Cooper Levey-BakerDec 31, 2013
Schillinger playfully rearranges our glossary.
Mellissa MartinezDec 26, 2013