Criticism

Books

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

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

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Books

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
Books

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Film

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri

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Criticism

A man and woman sit at a desk in a still shot of the film Phantom Thread / Courtesy Focus Features
Film

Springes to Catch Woodcocks

On Phantom Thread
Paul Franz
July 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Criticism

Wrestling with Machado

Ilan Stavans
July 1, 2018
The cover of the book Feeling Jewish by Devorah Baum.
Books

A Problem Shared

A review of Devorah Baum's Feeling Jewish
Leah Mirakhor
April 1, 2018
Scene from movie, The Post. Meryl Streep looks at Tom Hanks.
Film

Her Guy Bradlee

A review of Steven Spielberg's The Post
Charles Taylor
April 1, 2018
Musician Peter Doherty
Music

Musician Peter Doherty

From The Libertines to Babyshambles to solo artist
R. Clifton Spargo
April 1, 2018
The writer Thomas Pierce and the cover of his book The Afterlives.
Criticism

The Afterlives

A review of Thomas Pierce's first novel.
David Galef
April 1, 2018
Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman
Criticism

The Poetry of Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

Their shared preoccupation with the body
Danielle Chapman
April 1, 2018
pastoral scene with sheep
Criticism

Ashbery’s Pastoral Art

Echoes of an older age
Giulio J. Pertile
November 1, 2017
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

On Claire Messud

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
November 1, 2017
Detail from cover of Bidart's book; classical statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head.
Books

On Frank Bidart

Poetry in review
Christopher Spaide
November 1, 2017