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Tom Kromer, Appalachia’s Forgotten Modernist
Tom Kromer’s “Waiting for Nothing” is one of the great American novels you’ve never heard of.
All Essays
Into the Maelstrom
The long-prophesied “death of the author” has made us all authors of unceasing social narratives.
Rockets and Voltaire: A Dialogue on Ada Palmer’s “Terra Ignota”
Rebecca Ariel Porte and Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft discuss Ada Palmer’s “Terra Ignota” series.
Language for a New Landscape
Saikat Majumdar ponders whether the American creative writing model truly fits the needs of Indian students.
How to Read English in India
Akshya Saxena tells us why English in India is A Good Thing to Have.
This Is Not a Eulogy
Kimberly Elkins recalls a friendship with, and the death by suicide of, another member of New York’s theater world.
The Threat to the United States
Robert Slayton looks to the past to find ominous tidings.
The Political Ferment of Malayalam Literature
Aditya Narayan Sharma considers the legacy and growing global reach of Malayalam literature.
On Writing and Staging a Play in Prison
Sterling Cunio shares an excerpt from his recent book, “The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison.”
Feeling Like a Feminist with Audrey Diwan’s “Happening”
Lori J. Marso uses Simone De Beauvoir and a feminist phenomenological lens to consider Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” a film adapted from the work of Annie Ernaux.
Slave Narrative to Selfie Narrative: Equiano and Instagram
Kaushik Tekur explores the insights and shortcomings of an insta-film adaptation of “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” (1789).
The Hand Claps
Rosie Stockton and Rachel Rabbit White in conversation, followed by a series of poems by the pair.
Zadie Smith Finds Her Way to Class
Todd Cronan on Zadie Smith’s politics of compassion.
Tension and Drive: Maya Deren and Gregory Bateson’s Plateau
Vinícius Portella forges the historical and intellectual connection between Maya Deren’s cinema and her reading of Gregory Bateson’s concept of the “plateau.”
Orientalism in Our Code: “The Matrix Resurrections,” Hollywood, and Anti-Asian Violence
The Matrix's final lesson to me, in watching The Matrix Resurrections, is that I can no longer swallow its bitter pill.
The Pursuit of Property: The Afterlife of an Armenian Charitable Complex in Istanbul
What happens when a prize piece of land in Istanbul is also connected to the Armenian community?
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