Literary Criticism

Life in Solitude is an introductory chapbook of haiku. It is centered around the emotions...

The concept of dualism is well illustrated by the Chinese pantheon. Whether as the result...

LONG, long ago, in the days of the animal people, Raven-at-the-head-of-Nass became angry....

With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristi...

William Shakespeare is the celebrated script writer of the most popular plays in the Engl...

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the eff...

Not just a collection of poems written in the same form and genre but a flowing and intim...

Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and ...

We are all classicists—we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in ou...

Once there was another Sun and another Moon, a different Sun and a different Moon from th...

About the Book?The poem depicts the relationship between literature and life.It is an exp...

From colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars ...

Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outsid...

Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconogra...

A raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballr...

-A collection of Voltaire's ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but wort...

Comedian and Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi presents his new (and first) book No L...

The iconic and irresistible cartoonists join up to talk about their new books: Can't We T...

Karen Joy Fowler leads a celebration of Jane Austen. Hope Davis reads selections from Aus...

Aimee Bender sits down with Heidi Julavits to discuss her book, The Particular Sadness of...

Edward P. Jones sits down with Wyatt Mason to discuss his collection, All Aunt Hagar's Ch...

Amy Bloom sits down with Isaiah Sheffer to discuss her book, Away. Jill Eikenberry reads ...

Justin Vivian Bond joins Mike Albo for a discussion of v literary works and a performance...

Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey once again convene to discuss Leo Tolsto...

Anne Enright sits down with Hanna Tinti to discuss her book, The Forgotten Waltz. Amy Rya...

An evening of readings and discussion: Heller's friends and colleagues including Christop...

Claire Messud joins Valerie Martin to discuss her book, The Emperor's Children. Hope Davi...

Isaiah Sheffer sits down with two great contemporary authors, Colum McCann and Colm Toibi...

The whip-smart and funny authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rako...

David Wrobleski sits down with Dan Menaker to discuss and read excerpts from his book, Th...

Edwidge Danticat sits down with director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) to discuss...

Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham (The H...

Joan Didion joins Griffin Dunn for an evening of literature and film celebrating her nove...

Susanna Clarke discusses and reads from her novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell.

Julie Otsuka sits down with David Rakoff to discuss her novel Buddha in the Attic. Rita W...

Louis Erdrich sits down with Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) to discuss her short story colle...

Judith Jones and Alex Prud'homme discuss and read from their kitchen-based memoirs: Prud'...

Isaiah Sheffer sits down with two memoirists, Alexandra Fuller and Wendy Kann, to discuss...

Nicole Krauss sits down with Deborah Treisman to discuss her book, Great House. Lois Smit...

Zadie Smith sits down with Laura Miller to discuss and read from her novel, On Beauty.

Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey once again convene to discuss George Eli...

Richard Ford joins Isaiah Sheffer to discuss his novels The Sportswriter, Independence Da...

Michael Cunningham (The Hours) sits down with Stacey D'Erasmo to discuss his novel Specim...

A panel of James Atlas (Delmore Schwartz, Saul Bellow), Edmund Morris (Theodore Roosevelt...

Kaye Gibbons joins Elissa Schappell to discuss The Life All Around Me, the sequel to her ...

Tom Mallon joins John Freeman to discuss their books, Mallon's Yours Ever and Freeman's T...

Tom Rachman sits down with Sree Srinivasan to discuss his novel, The Imperfectionists. Da...

The author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses talks with Colum McCann (Let the...

The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-a...

Sapphire (Push), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Harlem is Nowhere), and actress Sonia Manzano (The...