Criticism

Review: Goldbeater’s Skin

By G.C. Waldrep.

  • Debora Kuan

Review: Of Thee I Sing

By Timothy Liu.

  • Garth Greenwell

Necessary Truths

On Scott Soames’s Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century.

  • Alex Byrne
  • Ned Hall

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

Not Your Father’s Formalism

Three new collections of poetry. 

  • Rafael Campo

The Devil and Henry Dumas

A lost voice of the Black Arts Movement.

  • Scott Saul

Sign up for our newsletter

Streaming Poetry

Tan Lin's BlipSoak01.

  • Brian Kim Stefans

Review: Fleet River

By James Longenbach.

  • Robert Schnall

The Happy Place

On Walt Kelly’s Pogo.

  • John Crowley

Lawless

Bad Education, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

  • Alan A. Stone

Harder to See

Reading the Illegible by Craig Dworkin.

  • Jacques Khalip

Review: Little Savage

By Emily Fragos.

  • Kathleen Rooney

Review: Columbarium

By Susan Stewart.

  • Nadia Herman Colburn

Photographing Cruelty

In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the weapon of choice was not the gun but the spectacle of public shaming.

  • Susie Linfield

Reading China

What American conventional wisdom gets wrong.

  • Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

Reading Harvey Swados.

  • Grace Paley

The Secret Lives of Men

Pat Barker's ambitious project.

  • James Hynes

Desire’s Nemesis

Seven new poetry collections. 

  • Calvin Bedient

Poetry in Motion

Some Values of Landscape and Weather by Peter Gizzi.

  • Andrew Zawacki

The Little War Begins

Trouble in Mind by Lucie Brock-Broido.

  • Larissa Szporluk

Microreviews: Summer 2004

Five new collections.

The End of Remorse?

The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson. 

  • Alan A. Stone

The People’s Poetry

National Poetry Month, without lament.

  • Hank Lazer

Pound Ascendant

New collections of Ezra Pound’s poetry. 

  • Marjorie Perloff
trending_flat
Get our newsletter

Vital reading on politics, ideas, and culture to your inbox

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975

Registered 501(c)(3) organization

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Donate

Become a Member

Subscribe