Criticism

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.
Louise Lawler’s yellowy dye-destruction print of Warhol’s “Round Marilyn”

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood

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On "kaddish.com"

Fiction in review
April 1, 2019
Music

On Modern Composition

Music in review
April 1, 2019
Books

On Nine Recent Collections

Poetry in review
April 1, 2019
Film

The Cinematic Afterlife of James Baldwin

Film in review
April 1, 2019
Books

“They Don’t Know It, but We’re Integrated”

Thomas Pynchon’s “The Secret Integration” and The Saturday Evening Post
January 1, 2019
Film

Children of Thanos

Film in review
January 1, 2019
Books

Don Paterson on Poetics

Poetry in review
January 1, 2019
Books

On 'The Novel of Ferrara'

Fiction in review
January 1, 2019
Art

On Andy Warhol

Art in review
January 1, 2019
Books

Shipwreck with Spectator

Martha Nussbaum on Our Political Crisis
January 1, 2019