Folios

The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch

The Future of Nationalism

Four writers dissect its complex past—and its uncertain path forward

Is This Real?

Five writers on the line between fact and fiction

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The Waste Land at 100

Selections from the archives
Folio

Ownership: An Introduction

Nine writers on the complexities of property
Eula Biss

The Black Shape Slumped in a Chair

Kerry James Marshall and the Taliesin murders
Aisha Sabatini Sloan


More Joy and Less Cool

What it means to be a skater
José Vadi

Resisting Category

A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation

Poems on the Divine

Nine poets at the edge of the signifiable

The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen

Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf

The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min

Dictee at Forty

The life and legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing

Criticism and Truth

Three scholars respond to Jonathan Kramnick's book

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Folios

Facing America’s Social Crisis

The United States is at a turning point in economic policy. What happens next is crucial.
Nicholas Mulder
October 22, 2024

History Is Repeating Itself in Ukraine

Cycles of nationalism have existed for centuries. What do they reveal?
Andreas Wimmer
October 22, 2024

How the Radical Right Remade Nationalism

What happens when the central goal of politics becomes preserving national identity?
Suzanne Schneider
October 22, 2024

The Living Practice of Criticism

A reply to my respondents
Jonathan Kramnick
June 17, 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

Aubade

Sandra Simonds
April 1, 2024

Aubade

Shangyang Fang
April 1, 2024