Nonfiction

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

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Nonfiction

The Living Practice of Criticism

A reply to my respondents
Jonathan Kramnick
June 17, 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

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri
June 10, 2024

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas
June 10, 2024