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
Olga Tokarczuk’s Radical Tenderness
Reading the Nobel winner's oeuvre
Marek Makowski
February 16, 2021
Television
Act Your Age
Swapping bodies, swapping ages, and re-inventing youth
Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
December 21, 2020
Film
In the Atmosphere
In Mati Diop’s Atlantics, every breath takes in the evaporated substance of history
Lindsay Turner
June 1, 2020
Books
Speech Acts
Eunice de Souza, a post-Independence Indian poet, explores the glitches in poetic voicing
Vidyan Ravinthiran
June 1, 2020
Books
The Unthinkable
How do you put into words the boundless pain of losing a child?
David L. Ulin
June 1, 2020
Books
Tove Jansson’s Genius
The radical imagination that built the visionary world of the Moomins
Evan James
June 1, 2020