Criticism
10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!
How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
Service or Servitude?
The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner
The Consolations of Failure
Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
The Choice Plot
Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer
Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
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Criticism
All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere
Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León
March 9, 2023
On Anton Shammas's "Arabesques"
Revisiting the first major book in Hebrew by an Arab writer
Ratik Asokan
February 20, 2023
Books
Wong May's Poetry of Exile
In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)
February 6, 2023
White Noise, New and Improved
How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023
On Emancipation
What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
December 9, 2022