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There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
Culture
Essays from the world of letters, art, and ideas.
For the Love of Glamour: American Aristocracy from Twain to Trump
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
Watching Pixels Die: Sony, HBO, and “The Last of Us”
Maria Bose and Jason Willwerscheid analyze corporate moves to adapt prestige video games into prestige TV.
Ocean of Sound
Theo Spielberg appreciates Fatima Al Qadiri’s haunting score for the 2019 Senegalese film “Atlantics.”
Power over Spice Is Power over All: Extractivism and Indigenous Knowledge in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”
Devin Griffiths reads Frank Herbert’s “Dune” as a novel of environmental protest.
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From the Archive
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Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive
Translated by Adam Briscoe
The Morality of Memoir, or, Daddy I Want Coffee!
On this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman talk about the ethics and politics of memoir in the wake of several recent...
Allegorical Moments: Lyn Hejinian’s Life in Writing
Nine poets and critics commemorate the late Lyn Hejinian.
“A Passage to India” on Its 100th Birthday
Sameer Pandya traces the path of E. M. Forster’s classic novel in his own passage to India.
There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
Killerheimer: American Betrayal in Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan
Jimmy So analyzes what “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to say about America.
Every Ship Is a Passenger Too: On Publishing Today
Chris Molnar considers what it's like to be a writer today.
Vincent O. Carter at 100: A Voyage of the Mind
Hans J. Rindisbacher ponders the work of the Black American expat Vincent O. Carter in his centennial year.
A Cinematographer’s Lens: On This Year’s Oscar Nominees
Cinematographer Michael M. Pessah surveys this year’s Oscar nominees in the category and considers the state of the art.
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