Criticism
Books
Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down
The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
Film
Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK
All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
Books
Renaissance Women
A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
Browse
Criticism
Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King
A new biography tries to pin the rocker down
Hannah Gold
October 16, 2023
10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!
How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
September 18, 2023
How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer
Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
September 18, 2023
The Choice Plot
Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
September 18, 2023
Service or Servitude?
The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner
September 12, 2023
The Consolations of Failure
Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
June 12, 2023
