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

Poetry as Written

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1959

A Negro Nation

W. E. B. Du Bois
October 1, 1942
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

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