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

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The Misinformation Age

Weaponizing Reputation

Cailin O’Connor

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James Owen Weatherall

October 1, 2018

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Walk Past the Vines, Past the Orchards

When friends talk about art

Meltem Gürle

September 24, 2018

A photo of the author and her brother, with other children

The Good Brother

On siblings

Mary Barnett

September 12, 2018

Fish nets hanging on a wall

From The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples

An excerpt from the Italian

Roberto Saviano

and

Antony Shugaar

August 29, 2018

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Instructive Formalities

The poetry of Laura Bush

Mary Barnett

August 13, 2018

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Hope

On sisterhood

Mary Barnett

July 30, 2018

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On This Day

The war and the memories

Mary Barnett

July 16, 2018

Illustration of Matterhorn (mountain).

A Mountaineer’s Imagination

Journeying up the Matterhorn

Veronica Tomasic

July 9, 2018

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Corporatism/Professionalism

An unnecessary distinction

Feisal G. Mohamed

July 3, 2018

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Bengali Baboo

Deborah Baker

July 1, 2018

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