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

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975

Pynchon’s Gravity

Edward Mendelson
July 1, 1973

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
Thom Gunn
October 1, 1963

Outside Faction

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1961