Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

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?
Rochelle SpencerSep 28, 2019
- Literary Criticism
- SF
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.
Walt HunterSep 27, 2019
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry
Passionate Affinities: A Conversation with Rita Felski
Rita Felski on the limits of critique, the democratization of reading, and the power of the “re-”.
Francesco GiustiSep 25, 2019
- Literary Criticism
Storytelling and Forgetfulness
Amit Chaudhuri considers the relation between living, telling, and writing.
Amit ChaudhuriSep 20, 2019
What Has Literature Ever Done for You?
Keegan Cook Finberg reviews Juliana Spahr’s “Du Bois’s Telegram.”
Keegan Cook FinbergSep 16, 2019
- Literary Criticism
The Ordeal of Writing
Michael Krimper reviews a newly translated biography of Maurice Blanchot.
Michael KrimperSep 14, 2019
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.
Katharine ColdironSep 11, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- Literary Criticism
“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."
Sarah HaasSep 11, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- Literary Criticism
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.
Dylan BrownSep 1, 2019
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay
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.
John MacintoshAug 26, 2019
- Economics and Finance
- Literary Criticism
Three Times
Jessica Riskin, Amit Yahav, and Christina Lupton teach us that we use time and reading to make sense of ourselves to ourselves and others.
Tita ChicoJul 23, 2019
Reading Ruskin in Cataclysmic Times
Alexandra Milsom reviews Suzanne Fagence Cooper’s “To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters.”
Alexandra L. MilsomJul 23, 2019