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Alice Notley’s Disobedience

The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor


Stealing the Show

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson

Kurt Cobain and Jenny Holzer on 42nd Street

A chance decision made an iconic photograph. Thirty years later, what does it reveal?
Bob Nickas

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas

The “singularity” of criticism stems from the singularity of literature, a unique corner of any world.

Jonathan Kramnick The Living Practice of Criticism

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Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre

Critical Navel-Gazing

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

The Afterlife

Jessica Laser

Absolute Darkness

A curious disorientation
Lydia Davis

When the Dog Bites

Tomás Q. Morín

Rosaura at Dawn

Daniel Saldaña París
translated by Christina MacSweeney

Has something been lost over the past twenty years—or does criticism still thrive? What do we do when we talk about art? Have the ways we evaluate books changed? And perhaps most important of all: What do we need from criticism?

Meghan O'Rourke An Introduction to Our Criticism Issue

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