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Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism news and analysis from The Nation
March 19, 2019
The literary giant’s unique resonance in our anti-capitalist moment.
March 13, 2019
Rachel Ingalls’s 1983 novel Binstead’s Safari is a fable-like account of the price of feminism and the freedom from domesticity.
February 11, 2019
The new grammar and usage handbook by Benjamin Dreyer, Twitter’s premier grammarian, reinforces an elitist view of writing and language.
June 8, 2018
At his best, Kanye West could be something of a Walt Whitman with Pro Tools. His new album, Ye, sadly feels like something halted in mid-sentence.
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May 9, 2018
Many of the stories in Dino Buzzati’s Catastrophe are more concerned with paranoia and fear than with dramatic repercussions.
May 3, 2018
What passes for civilization is often just refined savagery.
April 16, 2018
Multiple meanings always simmer under the surface of his writing, but in The Solitary Twin , they’re more hidden.
March 30, 2018
At the core of Clarice Lispector’s works is the tension between language’s profound potential and its inability to reach the vital realm of the unspeakable.
March 23, 2018
Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks suggests a different method for fashioning a dystopian novel.
