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Essays

Why I Write

The legendary cultural critic on finding a life’s work
Greil Marcus
December 11, 2023
From the Archives

Letter to a Young Novelist

Mario Vargas Llosa,
translated by Natasha Wimmer
July 1, 2002
Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
March 4, 2024
Essays

When Metaphor Gets Literal

What my mother’s coma taught me about reading poems
Jennifer Grotz
April 3, 2024
Essays

Yellow Band

A diagnosis alters a writer's relationship to his work
Steve Edwards
April 29, 2024
Books

Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
June 10, 2024
Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
June 10, 2024
Essays

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024
The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024
Essays

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri
June 10, 2024