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Paul Auster
Why the novelist’s brand of postmodern detective fiction still matters
Ben Libman
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The Poet as a Young Critic
In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer
June 27, 2024
A Reviewer’s Life
The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024
Critical Navel-Gazing
If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024
Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now
The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed
May 29, 2024
Tiger’s Eye Mala
The prayer beads that saw me through a feverish midlife crisis
Lauren Groff
May 22, 2024