Criticism
James Schuyler’s Genius
Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
Terrence Malick’s Disciples
Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Chaos Agent in Chief
What Michael Wolff’s Trump quartet tells us about the next four years
James Surowiecki
Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time
How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical experiment in time
Clare Carlisle
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Criticism
The Real World of Reading
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Ankhi Mukherjee
June 17, 2024
The Rhapsodic Critic
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Elaine Scarry
June 17, 2024
Writing for the Reader
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Paul Saint-Amour
June 17, 2024
When the Movies Mattered
Siskel and Ebert and the heyday of popular movie criticism
Annie Berke
June 12, 2024
Alice Notley’s Disobedience
The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor
June 10, 2024
Poetically Speaking
A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
June 10, 2024
Stealing the Show
Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson
June 10, 2024
Books
Gender Wars
Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
March 4, 2024
Books
Renaissance Women
A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
March 4, 2024