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
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
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
The Darker Side of Bambi
What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
November 30, 2022
Ideas
Hard Wired
How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
June 1, 2022
