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

Browse

Criticism

From the Archives

A Negro Nation

W. E. B. Du Bois
January 1, 1942
From the Archives

Scholarship and Literary Criticism

Albert Feuillerat
January 1, 1925
From the Archives

Literary Criticism in American Periodicals

Bliss Perry
July 1, 1914
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

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