Criticism

The Possessed

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Joshua Cohen on April 1, 2021

No Ouija board required: on Philip Roth’s writing, legacy, and a new biography Read More

By Christian Lorentzen,

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

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…

By Harper’s Magazine, on March 25, 2019

What gets lost in the age of the algorithm

By Mark Kingwell,

Can art make anything happen?

By George Saunders,

By Wyatt Mason,

John Updike and the book-review bugaboo

By John Leonard,

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

By Cynthia Ozick,

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

By Ben Marcus,

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