Criticism
Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.
Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text
How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
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Film
Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK
All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
February 26, 2024
Books
Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down
The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
February 7, 2024
Books
Life in the Algorithm
It has reshaped culture—but how? Two new books reckon with our digital predicament
December 11, 2023
Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance
The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
December 4, 2023
Streaming the Polycrisis
Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
November 28, 2023
