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The Story Wars
The conflict between Red and Blue America is a clash of national mythologies
Richard Slotkin
The Wondrous Banality of Democracy
Counting the votes in one Pennsylvania county during the 2020 presidential election
John Fabian Witt
The “singularity” of criticism stems from the singularity of literature, a unique corner of any world.
Jonathan Kramnick The Living Practice of Criticism
The Poet as a Young Critic
In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else
Langdon Hammer
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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