Audrey Wollen

Audrey Wollen is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Bookforum, The Nation, and others.

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.
June 8, 2026

Green, Lively, and Full of Decay

Why Claire-Louise Bennett’s epistolary style is the one for our times
September 8, 2025

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
March 11, 2025