Erasure as Empowerment: A Conversation with Kristina Marie Darling
The prolific poet-critic discusses her latest book of essays, “Silent Refusal.”
The prolific poet-critic discusses her latest book of essays, “Silent Refusal.”
Molly GaudryApr 1, 2022
This superb critical study explores “what makes poetry with a capital P so captivating and indispensable.”
Tal GoldfajnMar 29, 2022
Gianluca Didino remembers W. G. Sebald through two recent books.
Gianluca DidinoMar 20, 2022
Nataliya Karageorgos reviews José Vergara's "All Future Plunges to the Past," a new book about James Joyce's influence on Russian literature.
Nataliya KarageorgosFeb 28, 2022
Christine Jacobson finds a “convivial companion,” as well as catharsis, in “Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li,” edited by...
Christine JacobsonFeb 25, 2022
Why are there so many amateur therapists in today's fiction?
Christina FogarasiFeb 16, 2022
A new book about caregiving in Victorian novels sheds valuable light on the crisis of healthcare today.
Rachael Scarborough KingFeb 11, 2022
How James Joyce completed his great novel by his 40th birthday.
Philip Keel GeheberFeb 2, 2022
Richard Joseph interrogates the contemporary life of the critical hatchet job.
Richard JosephJan 13, 2022
A transcript of the panel discussion "Under Review" — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 4.
Aaron Bady, Boris Dralyuk, Jane Hu, Christian Lorentzen, Julian Lucas, Ismail MuhammadDec 31, 2021
The noir author’s personal notebooks have a claim to be her life’s major work.
Robert MintoDec 16, 2021
Panashe Chigumadzi considers the generation that emerged after the Makerere University for the Conference of African Writers of English Expression.
Panashe ChigumadziDec 13, 2021
The final collection of essays from a great Irish scholar.
Conor McCarthyNov 29, 2021
Higgins’s new book examines the reactionary imagination in contemporary science fiction.
Brian AtteberyNov 27, 2021
Josh Emmons tries to name an embarrassing feeling about art: the sad, amused, "not-schadenfreude" when excellent art is ignored.
Josh EmmonsNov 23, 2021
Balzac’s great “Comédie humaine” offers a middle way between speculative fiction and autofiction.
Elena Comay del JuncoNov 21, 2021
Marjorie Perloff revisits the criticism of Russian Formalist Yuri Tynianov, whose essays have been collected in English for the first time.
Marjorie PerloffOct 28, 2021
It is very hard to talk properly about money in relation to creative work.
Katie da Cunha LewinOct 27, 2021
Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein considers the “organizing concerns” of Aaron Kunin.
Griffin Shoglow-RubensteinOct 23, 2021
Dan Sinykin finds cautious hope in “Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon” by Mark McGurl.
Dan SinykinOct 20, 2021
Dan Turello considers "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague," the recently published book by Guido Ruggiero.
Dan TurelloOct 20, 2021
Keith P. Mankin, Ed Simon, and Erik J. Larson each review Angus Fletcher’s “Wonderworks,” and Fletcher responds.
Keith P. Mankin, Ed Simon, Erik J. Larson, Angus FletcherSep 26, 2021
Teresa Carmody deliberates upon the feminist histories and radical possibilities of autotheory and autofiction.
Teresa CarmodySep 17, 2021
Francesco D’Isa is entranced by “Theatre, Magic and Philosophy” by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath.
Francesco D’IsaAug 22, 2021