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
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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