Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously

Merve Emre

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today

Christine Smallwood

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

Critical Navel-Gazing

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

Namwali Serpell

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer

Amit Chaudhuri

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Essays

A portrait by Picasso of Gertrude Stein.

“Sitting at the Table” with Stein and Ashbery

“An Occasion” for Thin[g]king

Karin Roffman

April 1, 2019

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“The Lonely Hearts Killer,” 1957-1958

Notes on a killing

Harold Schechter

March 18, 2019

Northern lights in blue and red on black sky

How After the Quake You Returned to What Was Lost

A brief moment

Éireann Lorsung

March 11, 2019

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The “American Tragedy” Murder, 1906

Notes on a killing

Harold Schechter

March 4, 2019

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Ode to my Father’s Boots

On aging

Cornelius Eady

February 28, 2019

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The “Sausage Vat Murder,” 1897

Notes on a killing

Harold Schechter

February 18, 2019

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Philip Roth, Landlord

A literary rentier

Terena Elizabeth Bell

February 4, 2019

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What Is An Emergency?

On the southern border

Feisal G. Mohamed

January 14, 2019

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Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund

January 1, 2019

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Prison Term

Peter Brooks

January 1, 2019

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