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
All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere
Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León
March 9, 2023
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