Criticism

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi

Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority

She built a critical voice on risk and provocation. Who is she speaking to now?
Sam Huber

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck

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Criticism

A portrait of James Ellroy
Recordings

Recordings in Review: James Ellroy

James Ellroy
April 1, 1997
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

The Achievement of Norman Maclean

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1994

State and Vine

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

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984