Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

The Jewish Body in Pain
Sunny S. Yudkoff’s cultural lens is intriguing, but her close readings of literary works are what enliven "Tubercular Capital."
Arshy AziziFeb 14, 2019
Our Placeless Condition
Hadji Bakara reviews Lyndsey Stonebridge’s “Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees.”
Hadji BakaraFeb 11, 2019
- Literary Criticism
- Politics
tl;dr: On “Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century”
Gill Partington makes time for Christina Lupton’s “Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century.”
Gill PartingtonFeb 10, 2019
- Literary Criticism
Why Literature Professors Turned Against Authors — Or Did They?
The intentions of authors still matter, no matter what the critics say.
John FarrellJan 13, 2019
- Literary Criticism
Letter to the Editor: Timothy Aubry Responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Review of His “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures”
Timothy Aubry responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s LARB review of his “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures” (December 12, 2018).
Timothy AubryDec 30, 2018
- Literary Criticism
Tolstoy Untangled: On Donna Tussing Orwin’s “Simply Tolstoy”
Bob Blaisdell appreciates “Simply Tolstoy” by Donna Tussing Orwin.
Bob BlaisdellDec 25, 2018
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism
Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Jeff J. Williams talks to Bruce Robbins about George Orwell, the Sokal hoax, and his recent book, “The Beneficiary.”
Jeffrey J. WilliamsDec 23, 2018
The Aesthetic Is Back; It Never Left
Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews Timothy Aubry’s “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures.”
Jean-Thomas TremblayDec 12, 2018
- Literary Criticism
What Does Literary Studies Know?
Michael Clune reads Jonathan Kramnick’s “Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness.”
Michael W. CluneDec 10, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Science & Technology
Modest Witnesses
Two recent books make the case that the birth of the sciences relied on a series of personal transformations and imaginative leaps.
Sean SilverDec 7, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Science & Technology
A Mutual Bewitchment
A literary friendship, scrupulously enshrined.
Greg GerkeNov 21, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry
Economic and Literary Speculations
"How can the novel, and in particular the realist novel, deal with an event like the flash crash of 2010 or something like high-frequency trading?"
Mikkel Krause FrantzenNov 20, 2018