Criticism
James Schuyler’s Genius
Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
Terrence Malick’s Disciples
Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Chaos Agent in Chief
What Michael Wolff’s Trump quartet tells us about the next four years
James Surowiecki
Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time
How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical experiment in time
Clare Carlisle
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Criticism
James Schuyler’s Genius
Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
March 16, 2026
Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time
How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical experiment in time
Clare Carlisle
March 16, 2026
Searching for Seamus Heaney
What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
December 15, 2025
Terrence Malick’s Disciples
Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
December 15, 2025
Thomas Pynchon Is Angry
In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025
Green, Lively, and Full of Decay
Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
September 8, 2025
The Richard Siken Effect
How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann
September 8, 2025
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?
Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
September 2, 2025