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
Browse
Criticism
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
The Darker Side of Bambi
What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
November 30, 2022
Ideas
Hard Wired
How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
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