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Ideas

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right
Dana Stevens
March 10, 2026
Books

The Elusive Poet of Desire

Why biographers can’t pin Cavafy down
Langdon Hammer
March 16, 2026
Black-and-white photo of James Schuyler in the hallway of the Chelsea Hotel, New York City, 1988
Books

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
March 16, 2026
Essays

Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?

A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page
Michel Chaouli
March 16, 2026
Shakespeare and Company Interviews

David Szalay

The author of Flesh on moral murkiness, physical agency, and why the body knows things the mind doesn't
Adam Biles
March 5, 2026
Rumpled white sheet
Fiction

Antarctica

Jen Silverman
March 30, 2026
Annotating the Archives

Robert Frost at Midlife

In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form
Kamran Javadizadeh
April 6, 2026
Shakespeare and Company Interviews

Arundhati Roy

The author on how making sense of violence made her a writer
Adam Biles
April 30, 2026
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
June 8, 2026
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
June 8, 2026