Archive

Rethinking Rape and Laughter: Michaela Coel's "I May Destroy You"
Rebecca Wanzo describes how Michaela Coel's HBO series about trauma and recovery uses laughter to defiantly resist despair.
Rebecca WanzoSep 22, 2020
- Television
Key Island
A newly translated study of the vicissitudes of European immigration to the United States.
Magdalena MiecznickaSep 22, 2020
- Around the World
- History
Affirmative Action for the First Amendment: America’s Most Fundamental Right is Being Eroded
Rebecca Chapman makes a case for bringing the First Amendment closer to intended purpose.
Rebecca ChapmanSep 22, 2020
“Secretary Piñerarte” and “The Technicolor Flavor of La Vega”
For the first time in English translation, two pieces of political satire by the late Chilean author Pedro Lemebel.
Alexis Almeida, Pedro LemebelSep 21, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Cosmic Travel: On Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s “A Treatise on Stars”
Joanna Lee considers “A Treatise on Stars” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
Joanna LeeSep 21, 2020
- Poetry
Mt. Joy
Kiley Bense charts a path through pandemic gloom with help from a record of small daily joys.
Kiley BenseSep 21, 2020
Marvelous Belief
Cass R. Sunstein looks at Liel Leibovitz’s recently published biography of Stan Lee.
Cass R. SunsteinSep 21, 2020
- Biography & Autobiography
- Comics
Surviving the Discomfort: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine
Yvonne Conza interviews Claudia Rankine about her newest work, “Just Us: An American Conversation.”
Yvonne ConzaSep 21, 2020
- Poetry
“Unchangeably Appealing”: On Anatoly Liberman’s “Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age”
Sibelan Forrester reviews “Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age,” translated and annotated by Anatoly Liberman.
Sibelan ForresterSep 20, 2020
For Camus, It Was Always Personal
On the inspirational lyricism of Camus’s essays.
Robert ZaretskySep 20, 2020
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
On Radical Dance: Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti
On the writings of two major avant-garde dancers and choreographers.
Cassie PackardSep 20, 2020
- Art & Architecture
Of Pain, Paralysis, and Pursuit
Emily Hodgson Anderson writes about what it means to chase goals, stories, and relationships.
Emily Hodgson AndersonSep 20, 2020
A Journey to Being: On Seth Greenland’s “A Kingdom of Tender Colors”
An acutely observed, well-written memoir about surviving cancer, generously leavened with humor.
Tom TeicholzSep 19, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
The Frontiers of Form
Rachael Scarborough King on three books that consider the way forward for New Formalism.
Rachael Scarborough KingSep 19, 2020
- Literary Criticism
“Mordew” and the New Leftist Imaginary
Alex Pheby’s “Mordew” is dark fantasy for late capitalism.
Alexandra MarracciniSep 19, 2020
- SF
Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books
Reckoning with the ghosts of neglected women authors.
Leanne PhillipsSep 19, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Literary Criticism