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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
Kurt Cobain and Jenny Holzer on 42nd Street
A chance decision made an iconic photograph. Thirty years later, what does it reveal?
Bob Nickas
June 19, 2024
The Real World of Reading
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Ankhi Mukherjee
June 17, 2024
The Rhapsodic Critic
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Elaine Scarry
June 17, 2024
Writing for the Reader
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Paul Saint-Amour
June 17, 2024
When the Movies Mattered
Siskel and Ebert and the heyday of popular movie criticism
Annie Berke
June 12, 2024
A Reviewer’s Life
The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024
Alice Notley’s Disobedience
The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor
June 10, 2024
Critical Navel-Gazing
If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024