Criticism
Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors
What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge
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Criticism
Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance
The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
December 4, 2023
Streaming the Polycrisis
Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
November 28, 2023
The Legacy of Sonic Youth
How the band reached beyond music to define a scene
Michael Azerrad
November 8, 2023
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