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Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism news and analysis from The Nation
November 16, 2016
What role can the critic play in today’s uncertain times?
September 30, 2016
In her new collection, Core evidences a serious concern not just with what happens in a story, but also where it occurs.
September 22, 2016
Poetry defeats poems. Beguiled by this decorous paradox, Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry evades the art’s difficulty and strangeness.
September 6, 2016
A lost study of Buddhist art reveals a hidden side of a great literary critic.
August 23, 2016
Exile, failure, the dread of erasure: Antonio Di Benedetto seems to have transmuted all his life experiences into his novel Zama , which has finally been translated into English.
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August 12, 2016
Yaa Gyasi’s ideas about fiction are suffused with her lifelong attention to the fluctuating shadows that race casts on American life.
July 29, 2016
Eleanor Chai’s poems require delving below the surface of each compact, enjambment-packed stanza, forcing the reader through a process of discovery not unlike Chai’s own origin story.
July 28, 2016
His settings are dark, sketchy, and unrealistic by dint of what’s held back.
July 21, 2016
In two recent essay collections, Tim Parks explores why we bother with reading and writing books.
June 17, 2016
Her most obvious forebear in minimalist stories is Lydia Davis. But Schiff is certainly charting her own path.
