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 Auteur of Fatherhood
How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak
March 4, 2024
Film
Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK
All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
February 26, 2024
Books
Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down
The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
February 7, 2024
Books
In Search of Albertine
The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character
Victoria Baena
January 22, 2024
Books
Life in the Algorithm
It has reshaped culture—but how? Two new books reckon with our digital predicament
Anna Shechtman
December 11, 2023
Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance
The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
December 4, 2023
Streaming the Polycrisis
Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
November 28, 2023
The Legacy of Sonic Youth
How the band reached beyond music to define a scene
Michael Azerrad
November 8, 2023
Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King
A biography tries to pin the rocker down
Hannah Gold
October 16, 2023
10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!
How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
September 18, 2023