Criticism

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

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

Books

How to Continue

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery
Sam Huber

Books

The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja

The Darker Side of Bambi

What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel

Browse

Criticism

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022
Ideas

Hard Wired

How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
June 1, 2022
Books

The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAME

Tracing a poetic lineage
Terrance Hayes
June 1, 2022
Books

Why So Serious?

Sang Young Park’s angrily funny work charts a new path for gay fiction
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
May 16, 2022
Film

Making a Home In the Multiverse

Everything Everywhere All At Once reinvents the immigrant family drama
Simon Wu
May 9, 2022
Portrait of Sheila Heti
Books

The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja
March 1, 2022
On Craft

The Art of Control

Peter Bogdanovich’s masterful restraint
Jason Guriel
February 21, 2022
Oprah Winfrey wears a tiara, standing with cast members of SNL
Television

Has Anyone Talked About How It Feels

Oprah Winfrey’s reign
Kathryn Lofton
September 20, 2021
Release of pink and white balloons.
Books

How to Continue

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery
Sam Huber
September 20, 2021
Collage with images from social media

Now Is Pretty Creepy

On Miranda July
Min Li Chan
September 20, 2021