Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

See/Eakins/Swimming
On Sam See’s “queer mythologies” and Thomas Eakins’s "Swimming."
Christopher LoobyMay 3, 2020
Having an Orange Soda with Sam
The landscapes around Bakersfield and other outposts in the California foothills became alternate geographies for the modernist maps Sam and I were drawing.
Kate MarshallMay 3, 2020
- Literary Criticism
- Nonfiction
Once More, with Feeling
Sam See’s work will always be timely, in that it calls us to attend to the transformative power of the feelings that go into a work of literature
Michael NorthMay 3, 2020
Critical Love Studies
Writing about Sam See today, I am stunned to discover that his thoughts have been hiding in plain sight among my own.
Merve EmreMay 3, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Literary Criticism
Print Matters: On Jennifer Buckley’s “Beyond Text” and Heidi R. Bean’s “Acts of Poetry”
Elizabeth Wiet considers two new books that imagine new ways of using print and text within performance.
Elizabeth WietApr 24, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Literary Criticism
Going Global: The Literature That Slavery Makes
Crystal Parikh reviews “Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery,” the new book from Yogita Goyal.
Crystal ParikhApr 21, 2020
- Around the World
- Literary Criticism
The Provincial Reader
Sumana Roy reflects on the loss — or the proliferation — of the provincial reader.
Sumana RoyApr 19, 2020
The Palimpsest of Language: On Steven G. Kellman’s “Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism”
A new study of the pleasures and pitfalls confronting translingual writers.
Piotr FlorczykApr 10, 2020
- Literary Criticism
Preserving the Poetic Dimension: A Conversation with Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik
Two premier translators on the pleasures and pitfalls of rendering Ibsen into English.
Kathleen Maris PaltrineriMar 28, 2020
Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz’s “Latinx Literature Now”
Renee Hudson considers Ricardo L. Ortiz's "Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event."
Renee HudsonMar 24, 2020
Dodging the Censor
A new book about the impact of literary censorship in the long 18th century.
Jake FuchsMar 20, 2020
Institution Building: On Anna Kornbluh’s “The Order of Forms”
Victoria Baena considers "The Order of Forms," a new book by Anna Kornbluh.
Victoria BaenaMar 15, 2020
- Literary Criticism