Craft Capsule: The Art of Literary Criticism

The author of Each of Us Killers shares a manifesto for literary criticism.
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The author of Each of Us Killers shares a manifesto for literary criticism.
“We are all authors. Let us acknowledge everyone.” —Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Every Day We Get More Illegal
The author of Each of Us Killers explains why reading and writing are forms of translation.
“I’ve been writing it for eighteen years. More than half my life.” —Fariha Róisín, author of Like a Bird
“Choose the bilingual, the multilingual, and the polyglot.” —Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, author of The Life Assignment
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump, the author and the translator of That Time of Year.
The author of RENDANG reflects on the value of uncertainty in his reading and writing lives.
The author of Fifty Words for Rain reflects on learning to forge her own unique path through the world.
“I had to sit with the fear and let it talk to me.” —Joshua Bennett, author of Owed.
The author of RENDANG considers the complex relationships embedded in the act of looking.