All tagged Literary Criticism
Jeff VanderMeer explores the failure of language, climate change, the fallibility of human institutions, ecstatic visions, and much more in this extensive interview about his new book, Absolution, the fourth installment from his celebrated Southern Reach series
Author Ledia Xhoga talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel, Misinterpretation
Poet Didi Jackson talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint
Author Tony Tulathimutte talks with Nirica Srinivasan about the mosaic of interconnected short stories focused on the "underrated sorrows of rejection" in his new collection, Rejection
Sarah Ghazal Ali in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her vivid debut poetry collection, Theophanies
Author Julia Hannafin in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about their debut novel Cascade
Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her collection Ward Toward
Author Ben Shattuck talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about his new book The History of Sound: Stories, which features a fantastically unique structure: each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Eliza Barry Callahan’s novel The Hearing Test
Writer, poet, and essayist Elisa Gabbert talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about her new essay collection Any Person Is the Only Self
In a perceptive and revelatory interview with Nirica Srinivasan, author R.O. Kwon explores the intricacies of her newly released novel, Exhibit
Poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator Anne Carson discusses her new book of poetic prose pieces and images, Wrong Norma
Isabelle Sakelaris talks with award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang about her recent collection, A Film in Which I Play Everyone
Amber Caron talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her striking new short story collection Call Up the Waters
Poet Christopher Brean Murray talks about his collection, Black Observatory, & he discusses his intuitive methods of fabrication & questioning to discover truths in his works
Author Lydia Kiesling talks about the elements of class, power, politics, & desire in her new novel Mobility
Prolific author Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses her latest publication, My Life at the Wheel, a book of personal essays that she considers a memoir in collage form
Author Sean Michaels discusses his new novel Do You Remember Being Born?, which explores the implications of AI-assisted co-authorship of creative works
Poet Paisley Rekdal talks about her book West: A Translation
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Roman Stories, the new short story collection by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri