Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Up Out of the Darkness: A New History of Monsters
Colin Dickey reviews Leo Braudy’s “Haunted: Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds.”
Colin DickeyDec 11, 2016
- History
- Literary Criticism
Solving Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Elaine Scarry’s “Naming Thy Name”
Who was Shakespeare’s fair youth? Matthew Harrison reviews Elaine Scarry’s “Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.”
Matthew HarrisonDec 9, 2016
- Literary Criticism
Viennese Modernism
Marjorie Perloff’s account of a world no longer there as if it were in the texts of Viennese modernism.
Vincent SherryNov 27, 2016
- Literary Criticism
Intercultural Influences: On German Literature and Islam
Benjamin Balint reviews Navid Kermani’s “Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities.”
Benjamin BalintNov 21, 2016
- Literary Criticism
- Religion
A Response to Holger Syme
Sir Brian Vickers defends his book The One King Lear.
Brian VickersNov 6, 2016
- History
- Literary Criticism
Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
Is it literature: who cares?
Jon WienerOct 22, 2016
- Literary Criticism
- Music
Of Literature and Fossil Fuels
Why isn't literary fiction worrying about climate change? Yugank Goyal reads Amitav Ghosh to find out.
Yugank GoyalSep 30, 2016
- Literary Criticism
- Nonfiction
Serious Literature: On Hua Hsu’s “A Floating Chinaman”
Min Hyoung Song explores the legacies of Pearl S. Buck and H. T. Tsiang in Hua Hsu's "A Floating Chinaman."
Min Hyoung SongSep 25, 2016
The Text Is Foolish: Brian Vickers’s “The One King Lear”
Holger S. Syme reviews Brian Vickers’s “The One King Lear.”
Holger S. SymeSep 6, 2016
- Literary Criticism
Writing Like a State: Wendy Griswold’s “American Guides”
Donal Harris reviews Wendy Griswold’s “American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture.”
Donal HarrisSep 4, 2016
- History
- Literary Criticism
Like Glimpses Through a Window: Fredric Jameson on Raymond Chandler
Angela Woodward investigates “Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality” by Fredric Jameson.
Angela WoodwardSep 3, 2016
Reading in a World of Wonderlands
Have you really read "Alice in Wonderland" until you've read it in Esperanto? Rebecca L. Walkowitz finds out in her review of "Alice in a World of Wonders."
Rebecca L. WalkowitzAug 31, 2016