When critic and writer Suzanne Rivecca wrote an essay for the Rumpus a couple of weeks ago about the way male critics tend to write about Mary Gaitskill’s work —which… Read more »

We’ve posted about writers criticizing other writers, but this week in The Wall Street Journal, Susan Shapiro writes about perhaps the most stinging and dreaded literary take-down: the negative review.… Read more »

What does a fine literary critic scribble in the margins of the books he’s reading? Well, “OMG” and “LOL” and “Motherfuck” all make appearances… alongside, of course, deeper sentiments. Over… Read more »