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Katherine Anne Porter’s Pandemic
Turning to Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" to make sense of COVID-19.
All Essays
Queer Empire: On the 40th Anniversary of “The Empire Strikes Back”
Rebecca Harrison examines the queer credentials of “The Empire Strikes Back” on its 40th anniversary.
Pandemic Narratives and the Historian
Alex Langstaff interviews an international group of leading historians of public health, epidemics, and disaster science.
Letter to the Editor: Frontiers of Boyhood
The author of a cultural history of Western America throws a lasso around aspects of a review.
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Greg Youmans on the Pathbreaking Trans Media Art of 2008
Greg Youmans reflects on the work of Kalup Linzy and Tara Mateik.
Collectors and Their Collections: Archer Huntington and The Hispanic Society of America
On the “Glory of Spain” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
“Ah the Old Questions, the Old Answers”: Losing to Win in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”
Robert Zaretsky moves through Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” as the pandemic takes its course.
Can Words Help Heal a Fractured Nation?: A Visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival
Parul Kapur Hinzen reports from the world’s largest literary festival.
Love the One You're With: "High Fidelity" Goes Corporate
Annie Berke on Hulu's adaptation of High Fidelity as a Millennial romantic comedy of media conglomeration and tech utopianism.
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
Jodi Dean considers what comes after capitalism.
The Ecology of Equity, or Why We Need Diverse Voices so I Can Leave My Frida Kahlo Flower Crown at Home
A PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow discusses how today’s young adult fiction handles ethnic diversity.
“Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
The French director’s brilliant 2019 film powerfully captures the paradoxes of female creativity and agency.
The Things We Love
A gallery of portraits of a Sephardic Jewish family in the 20th century.
Who Sabotaged the American Economy? Thorstein Veblen Knows
What Veblen can teach us about managing the economy in the era of COVID-19.
Unvicarious: Reading with Sam See
What Sam See is looking for in the art he loves is something other than escape. He is seeking forms of shelter.
The Bullet/The Amulet
For my work on Sidney Howard, I collected shards of meaning, but how to look at these discoveries was informed by Sam See.
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