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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Books
Life in the Algorithm
It has reshaped culture—but how? Two new books reckon with our digital predicament
Anna Shechtman
December 11, 2023
Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance
The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
December 4, 2023
Streaming the Polycrisis
Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
November 28, 2023
The Legacy of Sonic Youth
How the band reached beyond music to define a scene
Michael Azerrad
November 8, 2023
Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King
A biography tries to pin the rocker down
Hannah Gold
October 16, 2023
10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!
How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
September 18, 2023
How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer
Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
September 18, 2023
The Choice Plot
Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
September 18, 2023
Service or Servitude?
The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner
September 12, 2023
