Criticism

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

How did we end up teetering between euphoria and exhaustion?
Jessikah Díaz

Books

How to Continue

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery
Sam Huber

Books

The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja

The Darker Side of Bambi

What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel

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Criticism

All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere

Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León
March 9, 2023

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love
Josh Cohen
February 28, 2023

On Anton Shammas's "Arabesques"

Revisiting the first major book in Hebrew by an Arab writer
Ratik Asokan
February 20, 2023
Books

Wong May's Poetry of Exile

In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)
February 6, 2023

White Noise, New and Improved

How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
December 9, 2022

The Darker Side of Bambi

What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
November 30, 2022

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel
November 14, 2022

A Ritual for Mystery

Clarice Lispector’s crônicas
Jared Marcel Pollen
October 31, 2022
Tribute

Hilary Mantel

Remembering a singular prose stylist
Brian Dillon
September 27, 2022