Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

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
Modernism and Mimesis
Amit Chaudhuri on getting past the trauma of modernism.
Amit ChaudhuriNov 18, 2018
- Around the World
- Literary Criticism
You Can Read (and So Can This Computer)
Sheila Liming reviews Andrew Piper’s “Enumerations: Data and Literary Study.”
Sheila LimingNov 12, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Science & Technology
A Substantially Good Book: On Charles J. Shields’s Life of John Williams
Christopher Urban admires “The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life” by Charles J. Shields.
Christopher UrbanNov 3, 2018
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism
Translation Without Theory
What is the best method for translation? V. Joshua Adams looks to Mark Polizzotti's "Sympathy for the Traitor" to find out.
V. Joshua AdamsOct 7, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay
Possible, Not Alternative, Histories: A Literary History Emerging from Sunlight
LARB presents an excerpt from “The Origins of Dislike,” a new collection of essays by Amit Chaudhuri.
Amit ChaudhuriSep 30, 2018
Alive in a Magic Democracy: On “The Real Lolita”
Francesca Capossela puts “The Real Lolita” by Sarah Weinman in dialogue with “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov.
Francesca CaposselaSep 12, 2018