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The five-paragraph fetish Writing essays by a formula was meant to be a step on the way. Now it’s the stifling goal for student and scholar alike David Labaree AEON David Labaree is Lee L Jacks professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the former president of the History of Education Society and former vice president of the American Educational..

Will Translated Fiction Ever Really Break Through?By Chad Post Vulture, May 7, 2019 Photo: Vulture May kicks off with the 15th annual PEN World Voices Festival, when international authors take over New York for a week of panels and events, and ends with the announcement of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. In celebration of a month replete with world literature, Vulture ..

Sherwood Anderson’s Revolutionary Small TownHow “Winesburg, Ohio” changed American literature. By Bruce Falconer Mr. Falconer is the senior editor of The American Scholar. The New York Times May 8, 2019 Sherwood Anderson in 1926.CreditCreditEdward Steichen/Condé Nast, via Getty ImagesIn the autumn of 1915, while living in a bohemian boardinghouse on Chicago’s Near Nor..

Literary Criticism Lionel Trilling, c.1950 © Bettmann Archive/Corbis via Getty Images Death of the critic?Michael LaPointe on complaints about criticism 0 --> 0"> MICHAEL LAPOINTETLS, April 23, 2019 0 --> -1 --> “There are hardly five critics in America, and several of them are asleep.” Students “seem less and less able to understand [literature’s] cognitive value or..

Translators and Other IconsBy Lily Meyer Public Books4.24.2019 Writers are sexy figures. Until recently, we tended to imagine them as drunk and glamorous, Hemingway at the bar in Cuba or Frank O’Hara partying with artists ... Lily Meyer Writers are sexy figures. Until recently, we tended to imagine them as drunk and glamorous, Hemingway at the bar in Cuba or Frank O’Hara pa..

Illustration by Jeffrey Decoster Susan Choi’s Missing PersonsHer novels have always championed the overlooked point of view. But "Trust Exercise" takes on a riskier experiment. By Rumaan AlamThe New Republic, April 10, 2019 Half-child and half-adult, adolescents are not very interesting. Adolescence is a temporary madness, common as a cold and usually about as profound. Mayb..

Cookie Notice By using this site, you agree to our updated Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. CloseLanguages at RiskWelsh and Hawaiian were saved from extinction. Other languages might not be so luckyBy James Griffiths, CNN Updated 2202 GMT (0602 HKT) April 9, 2019 EmilFacebokTwitterShare<img alt="" class="media__image" src="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190327121116-20..

‘I Have Let Whitman Alone’Brenda Wineapple The New York Review of BooksApril 18, 2019 Issue Edy BrothersWalt Whitman, 1880 In 1855 no one had yet heard anything like the raw, declamatory, and jubilant voice of the self-proclaimed “American, one of the roughs, a kosmos”—Walt Whitman, who in Leaves of Grass, his dazzling poetic debut, announced, “I celebrate myself,/..

Orwell’s Last Neighborhood David Brown Lingreads, April 5, 2019 While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four. <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><img width="1680" height="1260" src="https://longreadsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/panoramic.png?w=1680" class..

A Virginia Woolf Reading ListRecommendations from a life of reviews and diary entries. By Jaime Fuller Lapham's Monday, March 25, 2019 Reading by Lamplight, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, c. 1853. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Wallace L. De Wolf. At the beginning of her essay “How Should One Read a Book?”—published in 1932 in the second series of her Commo..