Criticism

Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
Books

Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down

The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt

Books

In Search of Albertine

The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character
Victoria Baena

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

The Auteur of Fatherhood

How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak

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Criticism

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

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel
November 14, 2022

A Ritual for Mystery

Clarice Lispector’s crônicas
Jared Marcel Pollen
October 31, 2022
Tribute

Hilary Mantel

Remembering a singular prose stylist
Brian Dillon
September 27, 2022

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022
Ideas

Hard Wired

How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
June 1, 2022
Books

The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAME

Tracing a poetic lineage
Terrance Hayes
June 1, 2022
Books

Why So Serious?

Sang Young Park’s angrily funny work charts a new path for gay fiction
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
May 16, 2022
Film

Making a Home In the Multiverse

Everything Everywhere All At Once reinvents the immigrant family drama
Simon Wu
May 9, 2022