Criticism

Subject of Study

If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.

  • Alan A. Stone

Microreview: Counting Sheep Until Doomsday, Carlo Matos

The prose poems in Carlo Matos’s second collection engage questions about the nature of free will: How does one discern fate from one’s choices?

  • Kristina Marie Darling

Microreview: Anselm Berrigan, Notes from Irrelevance

Poems addressed to you as much as to anyone.

  • Roy Scranton

Debts

In Peter Stamm's World, We All Have Them

  • Roger Boylan

Round and Round

A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.

  • Lytton Smith

Her Poets

A conversation with Maureen N. McLane

  • BK Fischer

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White Flights

On American fiction’s racial landscape.

  • Jess Row

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

Against Conceptualism

Conceptualism aims to eliminiate affect from poetry. There are emotional and political consequences.

  • Calvin Bedient

Black in Time

Kiese Laymon's Novel Explores the Messy Complexity of Race in America

  • Lucy McKeon

The Not-Saying

On the renunciation of poetry.

  • Christina Davis

The Greater Gatsby

Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.

  • Alan A. Stone

New Nature

Women Poets Escape Family—And Convention

  • Katie Peterson

Shifting the (Im)balance

On race and the poetry canon.

  • Evie Shockley

The After Party

An Interview with Chris Martin on Becoming Weather

  • Ted Mathys
  • Chris Martin

Thrilled with the Gifts of Humans

A Conversation with Michael Zapruder

  • Dan Chelotti
  • Michael Zapruder

The World Is Really Falling Apart

A Conversation with Noelle Kocot

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
  • Noelle Kocot

The Poetesses

An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar, Aracelis Girmay, and Daisy Fried

  • BK Fischer

Unacceptable

Paul Goodman was thinking globally and acting locally before it became a slogan.

  • Judith Levine

A More Ordinary Poet

With Emily Dickinson, the challenge is to understand a flesh-and-blood woman whose life took place on paper.

  • Gillian Osborne

The Progressive Puritan

Revisiting the Poems of Marianne Moore

  • Siobhan Phillips

Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain

The life of the black poet.

  • Major Jackson

Flesh and Statue

How do we separate David Foster Wallace the person from DFW the icon?

  • Trevor Quirk

The Price of Vengeance

Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate

  • Alan A. Stone
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