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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Ideas
Hard Wired
How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
June 1, 2022
Books
Why So Serious?
Sang Young Park’s angrily funny work charts a new path for gay fiction
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
May 16, 2022
Film
Making a Home In the Multiverse
Everything Everywhere All At Once reinvents the immigrant family drama
Simon Wu
May 9, 2022
Television
Has Anyone Talked About How It Feels
Oprah Winfrey’s reign
Kathryn Lofton
September 20, 2021
Now Is Pretty Creepy
What Miranda July's performance art reveals about our technologically mediated lives
Min Li Chan
September 20, 2021
Books
Machado de Assis’s Afterlives
The Brazilian novelist’s overlooked politics
Ratik Asokan
June 28, 2021