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
How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer
Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
September 18, 2023
The Choice Plot
Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
September 18, 2023
Service or Servitude?
The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner
September 12, 2023
The Consolations of Failure
Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
June 12, 2023
