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Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism news and analysis from The Nation
May 5, 2020
An exile who made the world his home, Said infused his literary style with a cosmopolitan ease and his political commitments with a cosmopolitan ethics.
April 13, 2020
The pandemic is stress-testing two concepts Americans have historically gotten wrong.
October 18, 2019
One of Sweden’s most important authors on how the Swedish Academy abuses its platform—and the intelligentsia lets it happen.
May 1, 2019
When we read a book like America Is in the Heart , we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.
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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.
