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Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes
Brandon Taylor, in Praise of Slow Reading
By
Brandon Taylor
| December 6, 2017
Susan Sontag on Being a Writer: "You Have to Be Obsessed"
And other insights on craft from the legendary critic and novelist
By
Emily Temple
| November 15, 2017
How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller
A Legendary French Critic Weighs in on "a book to laugh at and then forget."
By
Eric Chevillard
| October 30, 2017
Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception
She Was "Too Critical to Be a Poet and Too Poetic to Be a Critic"
By
Evan Kindley
| September 27, 2017
How A Reader's Feminist Critique Changed My Sci-Fi Novel
Erin Asked Me To Do Better. I Answered Her With A Better Book.
By
Daniel Price
| July 6, 2017
The Best Books About Books: Part 3
From the Critical to the Personal, Reflections on Reading
By
Jonathan Russell Clark
| May 10, 2017
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Books of the Week
Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy
By
Louise Gluck
| April 18, 2017
In Which Angela Carter Gives No F*cks
By
Edmund Gordon
| March 29, 2017
30 Books in 30 Days:
Blackacre
and
White Rage
By
Literary Hub
| March 14, 2017
30 Books in 30 Days:
Lab Girl
Michele Filgate on Hope Jahren's New Memoir
By
Michele Filgate
| March 13, 2017
30 Books in 30 Days:
Moonglow
Bethanne Patrick on Michael Chabon's Latest Novel
By
Bethanne Patrick
| March 1, 2017
How Paul Cézanne Taught Émile Zola to Look with a Painter's Eye
On a Deeply Influential, Lifelong Friendship
By
Anka Muhlstein
| February 16, 2017
Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man
On the Literary Magazine in which "The Fall of the House of Usher" First Appeared
By
Nathan Scott McNamara
| February 9, 2017
My Louise Bourgeois
Siri Hustvedt on the complex, brilliant, contradictory artist
By
Siri Hustvedt
| December 19, 2016
Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges
Noah Berlatsky on the Critical Value of Broad Comparisons
By
Noah Berlatsky
| December 7, 2016
Teju Cole Reminds Us of Life Beyond Politics, and the Beauty of Art
Adam Fitzgerald in Conversation with One of Our Great Essayists
By
Adam Fitzgerald
| November 8, 2016
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