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What “After the Hunt” Gets Right
I left academia. Luca Guadagnino’s new film reminds me why.
Annie Julia Wyman
Thomas Pynchon Is Angry
In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Four poets remember a singular mentor
Catherine Barnett,
Victoria Chang,
Meghan O’Rourke,
and
Carl Phillips
An Incomplete Mentorship
Ellen Bryant Voigt helped me become the writer I am today. After a falling out, we never spoke again.
Rachel Jamison Webster
Green, Lively, and Full of Decay
Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
The Richard Siken Effect
How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann
In Search of Zabihollah Mansouri
Was Iran’s most famous translator secretly its most prolific author?
Amir Ahmadi Arian
The Talented Ms. Highsmith
I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me.
Elena Gosalvez Blanco
Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive
The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak
An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print
Our Summer 2026 issue includes an essay by Annie Ernaux, available only to print subscribers. Subscribe by May 11.
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