Criticism

Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
Books

Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down

The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
Books

In Search of Albertine

The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character
Victoria Baena
Film

Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK

All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
Books

Renaissance Women

A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
Film

The Auteur of Fatherhood

How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak

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Criticism

Detail from cover of Bidart's book; classical statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head.
Books

On Frank Bidart

Poetry in review
Christopher Spaide
November 1, 2017
Exterior view of Metropolitan Opera
Music

The Metropolitan Opera’s Fiftieth Anniversary

Recordings in review
Dewey Faulkner
November 1, 2017
From the Archives

Charles Simic

Stephen Yenser
April 1, 2002
A portrait of James Ellroy
Recordings

Recordings in Review: James Ellroy

James Ellroy
April 1, 1997
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

The Achievement of Norman Maclean

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1994
From the Archives

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990
From the Archives

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985
From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982