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
Styles of Radical Illness
Anne Boyer diagnoses the lies we still tell about cancer
Laura Kolbe
January 1, 2020
Music
From Films to Operas
New interpretations of It's a Wonderful Life, The Exterminating Angel, and more
Dewey Faulkner
July 1, 2019
Books
The Fiction of Uwe Johnson
A review of Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
Marta Figlerowicz
July 1, 2019
Film
The Films of Alice Rohrwacher
A review of the director's work in Italian cinema
Elizabeth Leake
July 1, 2019