Criticism
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
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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The Renegade Richard Foreman
How the downtown playwright reinvented theater
Jennifer Krasinski
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When Fact-Checking Meant Something
A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi
June 9, 2025
Turning Style into Power
How the Black dandy used clothing to challenge authority
Richard Thompson Ford
May 20, 2025
Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority
She built a critical voice on risk and provocation. Who is she speaking to now?
Sam Huber
April 15, 2025
Vanity Fair’s Heyday
I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough
March 14, 2025
Finding the Real in Photorealism
Do we want art to transform our lives?
Jonathan Griffin
March 11, 2025
Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel
A new publication obscures the canonical writer
Tiana Reid
March 11, 2025
Chaos Agent in Chief
What Michael Wolff’s Trump quartet tells us about the next four years
James Surowiecki
March 4, 2025
America the Brutal
Why The Brutalist isn’t really about architecture
Christopher Hawthorne
February 18, 2025
