Criticism & Features

This is the twentieth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. It was love-at-first read for me with Henry

This is the nineteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. Growing up, I knew three things about my mother’s

This is the eighteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate

This is the seventeenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. In the spring of my senior year of

This is the sixteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. Securus judicat orbis terrarum, the Romans used to

This is the fifteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here. When I was a girl, I would play

This is the fourteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.   As is so often the case with

This is the thirteenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  I wasn’t looking for George Orwell in Burma,

This is the twelfth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  My father was a traveling preacher without a

This is the eleventh in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series, curated by Daniel Akst. More about this series, and how to submit, here.  Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried