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

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
Thom Gunn
October 1, 1963

Outside Faction

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1961

Poetry as Written

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1959

A Negro Nation

W. E. B. Du Bois
October 1, 1942
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

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