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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Searching for Seamus Heaney
What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
December 15, 2025
Terrence Malick’s Disciples
Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
December 15, 2025
Thomas Pynchon Is Angry
In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025
Green, Lively, and Full of Decay
Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
Audrey Wollen
September 8, 2025
The Richard Siken Effect
How Crush changed American poetry—and found a second life online
Richie Hofmann
September 8, 2025
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?
Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work.
Maggie Millner
September 2, 2025
The Renegade Richard Foreman
How the downtown playwright reinvented theater
Jennifer Krasinski
June 9, 2025
When Fact-Checking Meant Something
A new novel captures a bygone era in New York journalism
Susan Choi
June 9, 2025
Turning Style into Power
How the Black dandy used clothing to challenge authority
Richard Thompson Ford
May 20, 2025
Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority
She built a critical voice on risk and provocation. Who is she speaking to now?
Sam Huber
April 15, 2025