literary criticism

Beyond Resolutions: A Closer Look at “The New Year Poem” as an Act of Resistance

Stephanie Niu on Poems by Kim Addonizio, Jane Hirshfield, June Jordan and More

 
By Stephanie Niu  January 8, 2024
The Hub

Here are the winners of the 2024 Silvers-Dudley Prizes for literary and arts journalism.

By Literary Hub  January 4, 2024
Criticism

Toward Black Wonder: How Nicole Sealey Makes Erasure a New Way of Seeing

By Safiya Sinclair  September 6, 2023
On Translation

In Praise of “Spicy Interpretation”: On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

By Jessica Sequeira  August 4, 2023
The Hub

The case against criticizing books (specifically mine).

By Jessie Gaynor  May 31, 2023
Criticism

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

By David Sexton  April 26, 2023
On Poetry

Queer Correspondence: On the Radical Potential of Epistolary Poetry

By Madeleine Cravens  February 6, 2023
Religion

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies

By Caleb Smith  February 1, 2023
Classic Literature

Reading Tristram Shandy in an Age of Distraction

By Sarah Moorhouse  January 30, 2023
Children's Literature

On Harold of the Purple Crayon and the Value of an Imaginative Journey

By Ross Ellenhorn  November 8, 2022
Criticism

Mario Vargas Llosa on Retrospective, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers

By Mario Vargas Llosa  September 23, 2022
How to Read

We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing

By Elaine Castillo  July 26, 2022
Criticism

Does Care Require Sacrifice? On Suffering and Dignity in Elif Batuman’s Either/Or

By Catherine Nichols  May 26, 2022
Criticism

Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

By Nicole Miller  May 17, 2022
Best Reviewed Books of the Week

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks  April 15, 2022
Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks  April 14, 2022
Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks  April 7, 2022
Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks  March 31, 2022
Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week

By Book Marks  March 24, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

By Gabrielle Bellot  March 14, 2022
Criticism

Deep, Deep Time: On the “Cosmic Realism” of Kathryn Davis

By Anthony Domestico  February 16, 2022
Criticism

The Weaponization of Quiet: On the Subtle Horror of Ayşegül Savaş’s White on White

By Francesca Giacco  December 21, 2021
Criticism

Hisham Matar on the Migratory Fictions of Joseph Conrad

By Hisham Matar  December 3, 2021
Recommended Reading

“Magnificent Hybrids.” David Mitchell on the Alchemy of A.S. Byatt’s Stories

By David Mitchell  November 23, 2021
Psychology

“The Strangest Sense of Freedom.” On Jane Eyre and the Power of Narcissism

By Josh Cohen  October 26, 2021
Best Reviews of the Week

What the Critics Think: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks  October 7, 2021
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