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Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism news and analysis from The Nation
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.
May 25, 2018
The novelist’s wide-ranging work spanned from irreverent short stories to self-lacerating picaresque to experimental fiction, but at its center there was still a moral core.
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.
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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.
February 23, 2018
A new volume collects African-American folk tales that foreshadow contemporary debates about cultural ownership and appropriation.
February 5, 2018
The spirit of their romance lies in the fact that they are true.
January 29, 2018
There is much to learn from Yasunari Kawabata’s final novel, even as—especially as—it gives rise to more questions than answers.
