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Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism news and analysis from The Nation
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May 20, 2016
Even as it condemns Jefferson for his immoral conduct, O’Connor’s novel still holds him up as a hero.
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May 16, 2016
His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so.
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May 11, 2016
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
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April 29, 2016
In his new story collection, Luke Mogelson demonstrates that American soldiers fight for someone, and something, other than the reasons you hear.
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April 19, 2016
In Dog Run Moon, disaster strikes everyone, even those who are right living.
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April 8, 2016
The novelist and poet Carmen Boullosa talks about her obsession with lost stories and found textual objects, and how rereading gives books new faces.
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March 22, 2016
For all the plot devices that novelist Elizabeth Strout uses, My Name Is Lucy Barton’s successes rest on the protagonist’s voice.
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February 26, 2016
How does Valley of the Dolls actually hold up as a read 50 years later?
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February 24, 2016
What A Little Life, the churn of narrative nonfiction, and, thus, likely our real views of victims of trauma are missing is the recognition of agency.
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February 11, 2016
A collection of ephemera complicates the picture of Franz Kafka as a tortured neurotic.
