The Emancipation of Little Women: On Library of America’s “March Sisters”
On the limits of archetype and power of self-mythology in “March Sisters.”...
A Picture of Youth: On Stephanie Insley Hershinow’s “Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel”
Jason Pearl reviews “Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel” by Stephanie Insley Hershinow....
A New Hope: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s Vision for “The Dark Fantastic”
“The Dark Fantastic” poses an essential question about the absence of PoC voices: what happens to our imaginations when those voices are sacrificed?...
Same Difference: Jacob Edmond’s Copy Poetics
Jacob Edmond's "Make It the Same" should be celebrated not only for what the book does well, but also for what it makes possible for scholars to do next....
Passionate Affinities: A Conversation with Rita Felski
Rita Felski on the limits of critique, the democratization of reading, and the power of the “re-”....
Storytelling and Forgetfulness
Amit Chaudhuri considers the relation between living, telling, and writing....
What Has Literature Ever Done for You?
Keegan Cook Finberg reviews Juliana Spahr’s “Du Bois’s Telegram.”...
The Ordeal of Writing
Michael Krimper reviews a newly translated biography of Maurice Blanchot....
White Writers’ Omission of Race: Jess Row’s “White Flights: Race Fiction, and The American Imagination”
"White Flights" is a faultlessly argued collection of essays about how whiteness dominates the American literary imagination....
“I’m Not the Only One”: On Jess Row’s “White Flights”
Sarah Haas reviews Jess Row's latest book, "White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination."...
Larger and More Befuddling Questions: On Jane Tompkins’s “Reading Through the Night”
Dylan Brown reads through “Reading Through the Night” by literary critic Jane Tompkins....
Literary Economy: On “The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics”
John Macintosh reviews "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics," edited by Michelle Chihara and Matt Seybold....
