Criticism

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America

Jonathan Griffin

Books

The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?

Brandy Jensen

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies

Len Gutkin

Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue

Brian Dillon

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature

Chris Ware

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds

Emily LaBarge

Browse

Criticism

Beyond the Attention Economy

Turning to face our burning world

Laura Dassow Walls

May 23, 2023

How to Sharpen a Scythe

Is paying attention good in itself?

Daegan Miller

May 23, 2023

Sublimation and Self-Possession

Bearing witness to life’s weirdness

Ana Schwartz

May 23, 2023

The Saunterers’ Club

In pursuit of a more wayward Thoreau

Caleb Smith

May 23, 2023

Cancel Culture and Other Myths

Anti-fandom as heartbreak

Kathryn Lofton

March 27, 2023

Nothing Is a Memory

Remembering Bernadette Mayer

Daniel Poppick

March 27, 2023

The Journalist and the Photographer

Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures

Brian Dillon

March 27, 2023

The Renegade Poetic Fortune-Telling Machine

On Joel Dias-Porter

Terrance Hayes

March 27, 2023

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

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love

Josh Cohen

February 28, 2023

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