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

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Criticism

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

The Darker Side of Bambi

What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
November 30, 2022

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel
November 14, 2022

A Ritual for Mystery

Clarice Lispector’s crônicas
Jared Marcel Pollen
October 31, 2022
Tribute

Hilary Mantel

Remembering a singular prose stylist
Brian Dillon
September 27, 2022

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022
Ideas

Hard Wired

How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
June 1, 2022