Criticism
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
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
The Surrealists Move to Mexico City
What Leonora Carrington and her peers found in their new home
Chloe Aridjis
December 10, 2024
Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors
What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge
September 9, 2024
How Mike Kelley Became Himself
The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
September 9, 2024
Is Blasphemy Illiberal?
Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin
September 9, 2024
Writing in Pictures
Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware
September 9, 2024
The Real World of Reading
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Ankhi Mukherjee
June 17, 2024
The Rhapsodic Critic
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Elaine Scarry
June 17, 2024
Writing for the Reader
A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Paul Saint-Amour
June 17, 2024
When the Movies Mattered
Siskel and Ebert and the heyday of popular movie criticism
Annie Berke
June 12, 2024