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Criticism

Show Don’t Tell

by Agnes Callard, Becca Rothfeld,

From “Should Writers Talk?,” a discussion that was held in January at the University of Chicago. agnes callard: One of the reasons you give for why writers shouldn’t talk is…

A Loose Fish

by Gerald Murnane,

From Last Letter to a Reader, an essay collection, which will be published in May by And Other Stories. I have my own way of assessing the worth of a…

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

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,

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