Essays

Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
The Moment

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed
Tribute

Paul Auster

Why the novelist’s brand of postmodern detective fiction still matters
Ben Libman
Essays

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
Essays

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri

Browse

Essays

An old photograph of a churchyard cemetery. Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Essays

A Journal of the Plague

The 1918 Influenza
Francis Russell
December 1, 1958
Blue stamps from WWII ration book
Essays

Note on the Home Front

I shall never forget that first winter of gasoline rationing
Eve Riehle
September 1, 1945
A photograph of a London street during WWII.
Essays

After a Visit to England

London during the Blitz
Thornton Wilder
September 1, 1941
From the Archives

Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole

Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1939
From the Archives

A Conversation About Art

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1934
Propaganda poster of Leon Trotsky
From the Archives

Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky
December 1, 1933
From the Archives

The Novels of Turgenev

Virginia Woolf
December 1, 1933
From the Archives

Aurora Leigh

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1931
From the Archives

Memories of a Working Women’s Guild

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1930
From the Archives

Augustine Birrell

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1930