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
On Anton Shammas's "Arabesques"
Revisiting the first major book in Hebrew by an Arab writer
Ratik Asokan
February 20, 2023
Books
Wong May's Poetry of Exile
In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)
February 6, 2023
White Noise, New and Improved
How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023
On Emancipation
What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
December 9, 2022
The Darker Side of Bambi
What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
November 30, 2022
