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Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history

Richard Beck

October 27, 2025

From the Archives

State and Vine

On Thomas Pynchon's Vineland

Richard Powers

July 1, 1991

Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him

Elisa Gonzalez

December 15, 2025

Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time

How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical literary experiment

Clare Carlisle

March 16, 2026

Who Was Shakespeare?

What Hamnet does—and doesn’t—get right

Dana Stevens

March 10, 2026

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

James Schuyler’s Genius

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

Mae Losasso

March 16, 2026

Louise Lawler’s yellowy dye-destruction print of Warhol’s “Round Marilyn”

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.

Audrey Wollen

June 8, 2026

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

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

Kathryn Lofton

June 8, 2026

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