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
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Criticism
Books
Olga Tokarczuk’s Radical Tenderness
Reading the Nobel winner's oeuvre
Marek Makowski
February 16, 2021
Television
Act Your Age
Swapping bodies, swapping ages, and re-inventing youth
Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
December 21, 2020
Film
In the Atmosphere
In Mati Diop’s Atlantics, every breath takes in the evaporated substance of history
Lindsay Turner
June 1, 2020
Books
Speech Acts
Eunice de Souza, a post-Independence Indian poet, explores the glitches in poetic voicing
Vidyan Ravinthiran
June 1, 2020
Books
The Unthinkable
How do you put into words the boundless pain of losing a child?
David L. Ulin
June 1, 2020
Books
Tove Jansson’s Genius
The radical imagination that built the visionary world of the Moomins
Evan James
June 1, 2020
