Tag: Criticism

How it rose, fell, and may rise again.

Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.

On the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s posthumously published novel, Until August.

On Lakdhas Wikkramasinha’s vanished histories.

AI-generated novels are here, but they hardly spell the end of fiction.

On art in the age of generative AI.

Chantal Johnson’s debut novel, Post-Traumatic, makes the case that we can—by moving away from representations of individual suffering.

The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.

Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.

László Krasznahorkai’s latest novel reflects on the power of the surveillance state through the perspective of a librarian who wishes to lock up all books.

The celebrated novelist treated the past seriously, depicting its psychological complexity and drawing out its present-day political implications.

In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”

Kemi Alabi’s Against Heaven answers generations of spiritual violence and threatened damnation with reclamation, repopulation, and a redefinition of heaven.

Remembering the Nakba is not optional.

On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.

On the first English translation of the Austrian poet’s critical writings, composed against the backdrop of a society remaking itself in the shadow of fascism.

No other artist more perfectly anticipated the banal strangeness of life in the twenty-first century.

A “woke” remake that peddles in symbolic representation is not the film Puerto Ricans deserve.

Two recent essay collections explore the interplay between literary genre and a rapidly changing planet.