Criticism

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right
Dana Stevens

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

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer

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

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975

Pynchon’s Gravity

Edward Mendelson
July 1, 1973