Criticism

Poetry

Frank Bidart's Mirror

The collected poems of Frank Bidart provide an incisive index of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Heather Treseler

Literature & Culture

Unreliable Witnesses

From scrapbooks to family albums, the people of Kashmir have recorded their history in photographs. A new book presents their visual testimonies.

Suchitra Vijayan

Poetry

Scriptorium

On the poetry of Melissa Range.

Cat Fitzpatrick

Literature & Culture

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Junot Díaz interviews Margaret Atwood about The Handmaid's Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

Margaret Atwood, Junot Díaz

Literature & Culture

The Dystopia Next Door

A new generation of young Polish novelists has turned to dystopia to express Poland's cultural and economic contradictions.

Marta Figlerowicz

Poetry

Curating Resurrection

Susan Howe's Debths is the culminating gesture of her remarkable career.

Literature & Culture

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

Jonathan Kirshner

Poetry

There Is No History Without Names

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

Poetry

Summer Poetry Reading

New poetry from Chen Chen, Jennifer Kronovet, Jennifer Scappettone, Alli Warren, and Andrew Wessels.

Poetry

How the Cinder Bears the Seed

Susan Stewart's new poetry collection questions the power and potential of her own art.

William Waddell

Literature & Culture

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

Poetry

Astralize the Night

Anne Carson’s new work, Float, is a boxed set of twenty-two chapbooks in which the poet plays with different voices.

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