Tag: criticism

Columns

Edith Wharton’s Hauntology

Jack Hanson

October 27, 2021

Knowing and unknowing in Wharton’s “tales of the uncanny.”

The Novel According to Bezos

Megan Marz

October 21, 2021

Has Amazon changed literature?

The Never-Ending Story

Victoria Nebolsin

October 20, 2021

Storytelling amid the ruins in Joy Williams’s “Harrow.”

After Eden

Robert Rubsam

October 07, 2021

Traversing the scarred landscapes of Jean Giono’s Provence.

Fleur Jaeggy’s Mourning Exercise

Bailey Trela

September 30, 2021

On the rain-soaked tribute of The Water Statues.

The Story of the Lost Novel

Madeleine Crum

September 13, 2021

Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish.

Unsolved Mysteries

Sophie Atkinson

August 30, 2021

In Passing Time, Michel Butor turns the detective novel inside out.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Tom Thor Buchanan

August 16, 2021

A new history of teletherapy highlights the flexibility of the therapeutic frame.

Speeding Away from Zion

Ross Barkan

August 05, 2021

What is the American Jew?

Against the Universe

John Semley

July 16, 2021

Space Jam: A New Legacy takes the cinematic universe to its logical conclusion.

I Put a Spell on You

Hannah Gold

June 17, 2021

The witch trial as an act of too-close reading

American Fables

David Klion

June 15, 2021

George Packer seeks refuge in political myth.