Criticism

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.

Audrey Wollen

Louise Lawler’s yellowy dye-destruction print of Warhol’s “Round Marilyn”

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him

Elisa Gonzalez

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment

Mae Losasso

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down

Langdon Hammer

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years

Kathryn Lofton

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood

Bilge Ebiri

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Criticism

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

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