Criticism

Film

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

How did we end up teetering between euphoria and exhaustion?
Jessikah Díaz
Books

How to Continue

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery
Sam Huber
Books

The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja
Books

The Darker Side of Bambi

What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
Books

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel

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Criticism

From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

How did we end up teetering between euphoria and exhaustion?
Jessikah Díaz