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The Richard Siken Effect

How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann
September 8, 2025
Books

Green, Lively, and Full of Decay

Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
September 8, 2025
Sepia-toned image of Mary Oliver by the sea
Books

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?

Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
September 2, 2025
From the Archives

On Some Functions of Literature

Umberto Eco,
translated by Martin McLaughlin
October 1, 2004
Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Neige Sinno

The writer on Sad Tiger and the stories we live by
Adam Biles
September 29, 2025
From the Archives

Pynchon’s Gravity

Edward Mendelson
July 1, 1973
From the Archives

Pynchon as Satirist: To Write, To Mean

Alfred Mac Adam
June 1, 1978
Essay of the Week

How Sober Should a Writer Be?

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the ambivalence of American drinking culture
Sloane Crosley
October 6, 2025
Books

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025
From the Archives

State and Vine

On Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
Richard Powers
July 1, 1991