Literary Criticism

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Love and Theft in the 21st Century
"Buried not very far under the critique of racial theft is a privileging of African-American expressive culture as a resource in and of itself."
Jonathan FreedmanNov 1, 2015
- Literary Criticism
“What Next?”
Ira Sukrungruang reviews Tom Sperlinger's "Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation."
Ira SukrungruangOct 29, 2015
- Around the World
- Literary Criticism
An Ethical Relationship with Place
A review of Karen Babine's reflections on ethical relationships with place
Renée E. D’AoustOct 24, 2015
- Literary Criticism
- Politics
Writing Against Complacency
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreOct 15, 2015
- Literary Criticism
Adrian Piper’s Critical Instigation
"The challenge Adrian Piper models for us, her critical instigation, is to live in the present experimentally."
Tavia Nyong’oOct 11, 2015
- Literary Criticism
Maybe Connect
What brings Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elena Ferrante together is their shared refusal to give us the connection we desire.
Jedediah PurdyOct 4, 2015
- Literary Criticism
The Image of Genre
Reading an artist's novel is often a kind of aesthetic or intellectual work rather than a leisure activity.
Lucy IvesSep 13, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Literary Criticism
Merit Square-Off: The Fight Over College Admissions
Elite colleges are not meritocracies — if by “meritocracy” we mean that students are admitted solely on the basis of high test scores.
Steven BrintSep 13, 2015
- Education
- Literary Criticism
You Tell Me It’s the Institution: Creative Writing and Literary History
Kenneth W. Warren discusses "The Program Era."
Kenneth W. WarrenSep 13, 2015
- Literary Criticism
The Achievement of “Young Men and Fire”
What took Norman Maclean so long to write "Young Men and Fire"?
Alan ThomasSep 10, 2015
- Literary Criticism
The Writing Life
There is, Bukowski knew, an inimitable world between aspiration and success, a time to rage against the man, and a time to soften the blow.
Geoff BendeckSep 4, 2015
- Literary Criticism
Good Literary Criticism: On the Crisis of Man
What happened to the 20th century’s universal man?
Mark GobleSep 4, 2015
- Literary Criticism