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
Alice Notley’s Disobedience
The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor
June 10, 2024
Poetically Speaking
A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
June 10, 2024
Stealing the Show
Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson
June 10, 2024
Books
Gender Wars
Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
March 4, 2024
Books
Renaissance Women
A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
March 4, 2024
The Auteur of Fatherhood
How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak
March 4, 2024
Film
Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK
All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
February 26, 2024
Books
Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down
The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
February 7, 2024
Books
In Search of Albertine
The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character
Victoria Baena
January 22, 2024