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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Music

The Metropolitan Opera’s Fiftieth Anniversary

Recordings in review
November 1, 2017

Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
April 1, 2014
Books

Charles Simic

April 1, 2002

The Mask of Art

April 1, 1999
Recordings

Recordings in Review: James Ellroy

April 1, 1997
Books

The Achievement of Norman Maclean

April 1, 1994