The Trouble You Promised: Reading Tracy K. Smith
Sumita Chakraborty is moved by “Wade in the Water,” the newest collection of poetry by Tracy K. Smith, and all that came before it.
All Essays
Social Justice Comics Today: An Interview with the Creators of “The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet”
Daniel Worden talks with Nicole Burton, Hugh Goldring, and Patrick McCurdy about their recent graphic novel, "The Beast."
All Architectures I Am: The (Unintended) Legacy of Charles Olson’s Projective Verse
Max Lesser uncovers the unintended legacy of Charles Olson.
Remembering Simone Weil: The Price and the Purpose of Philosophy
Robert Zaretsky considers the legacy of Simone Weil 75 years after her death.
Fifty Billion Shades of Gray
"Root for the law, or root for the money? Fortunately, we don’t have to choose." Anna Kornbluh on "Billions."
Anxious Pedigree: From Fresh-Off-The-Boat to “Crazy Rich Asians”
With "Crazy Rich Asians," we remain in danger of what Toni Morrison calls “adjustment without improvement” in the American racial optic.
The Artist Malevich Takes a Walk in Vitebsk
Shifra Sharlin on the radical potential of artist Kazimir Malevich’s provincial flânerie.
When a Love Poet Writes an Epic: Catullus’s “Poem 64”
Daisy Dunn revisits Catullus’s “Poem 64.”
A Critic’s Ars Poetica
William Giraldi, author of “American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring,” presents his critical ars poetica.
“No Films Are Ever Made”: A Correspondence with Paul Bowles
Tom Christie presents his four-year correspondence with Paul Bowles.
A Castle Built on Sand? Ukrainian Literature and Crimea
Stephen Komarnyckyj explores the rich and fragile tradition of Ukrainian literature from Crimea.
Memories of the Skin: Shizu Saldamando’s Portraits
Reflections on queer punk art and performance.
The People in the Trees
What might convince us that forest defense and self-defense are the same?
To Endure the Void: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” Trilogy
Josie Mitchell surveys the “autofictional” project of Rachel Cusk, which reaches its end with “Kudos.”
Yuri Tynianov’s “Film — Word — Music” (1924)
Vera Koshkina and Ainsley Morse present “Film — Word — Music,” a 1924 essay on film by the great Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov.
“The Terror of History”: On Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade
Philip Ó Ceallaigh unravels the complicated relationship, in life and fiction, between Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade.
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