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Criticism

Like This or Die

By Christian Lorentzen,

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Literary Failure

By Elizabeth Hardwick,

There used to be the notion that Keats was killed by a bad review, that in despair and hopelessness he turned his back to the wall and gave up the…

Like This or Die

By Harper’s Magazine, on March 25, 2019

What gets lost in the age of the algorithm

Outside the White Box

By Mark Kingwell,

Can art make anything happen?

Active metaphors

By George Saunders,

Among the Reviewers

By Wyatt Mason,

John Updike and the book-review bugaboo

New books

By John Leonard,

The mental kitchen

By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden, Translated by Richard Howard

Literary entrails

By Cynthia Ozick,

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin

Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as we Know It

By Ben Marcus,

A correction

Before the Age of False Praise

By Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Kennedy, Harold Joseph Laski,

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