Criticism

Art

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
Books

The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Brandy Jensen
Books

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin
Books

Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
Books

Writing in Pictures

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

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge

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A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

On "Poet in Spain: Federico García Lorca"

Poetry in Review
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
July 1, 2018
An image of the cover of the novel "The Mars Room"; a photograph of author Rachel Kushner.
Books

On "The Mars Room"

Fiction in Review
Abigail Deutsch
July 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Music

On The New York Philharmonic’s 175th Anniversary

Recordings in Review
Dewey Faulkner
July 1, 2018
A man and woman sit at a desk in a still shot of the film Phantom Thread / Courtesy Focus Features
Film

Springes to Catch Woodcocks

On Phantom Thread
Paul Franz
July 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Criticism

Wrestling with Machado

Ilan Stavans
July 1, 2018
The cover of the book Feeling Jewish by Devorah Baum.
Books

A Problem Shared

A review of Devorah Baum's Feeling Jewish
Leah Mirakhor
April 1, 2018
Scene from movie, The Post. Meryl Streep looks at Tom Hanks.
Film

Her Guy Bradlee

A review of Steven Spielberg's The Post
Charles Taylor
April 1, 2018
Musician Peter Doherty
Music

Musician Peter Doherty

From The Libertines to Babyshambles to solo artist
R. Clifton Spargo
April 1, 2018
The writer Thomas Pierce and the cover of his book The Afterlives.
Criticism

The Afterlives

A review of Thomas Pierce's first novel.
David Galef
April 1, 2018
Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman
Criticism

The Poetry of Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

Their shared preoccupation with the body
Danielle Chapman
April 1, 2018