Criticism

Poetically Speaking

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

Brian Dillon

Books

The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?

Brandy Jensen

Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash

Paisley Currah

Books

In Search of Albertine

The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character

Victoria Baena

Alice Notley’s Disobedience

The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry

Tausif Noor

Stealing the Show

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater

Charlie Tyson

Browse

Criticism

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

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

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery

Lauren Michele Jackson

December 9, 2022

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