Criticism
The Education of an Ambivalent Feminist
Tara Westover’s best-selling memoir may reveal more about the place of feminism in contemporary U.S. life than any book in recent memory.
Dispatch in Two Parts: The Arab Body Writes Itself In
Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.
Masters and Servants
Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.
Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy
‘Happy End’ is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.
Manacled to a Whelm
Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.
Headset Hypocrisy
By the 2020 election, the market for virtual reality is projected to increase twentyfold. That's great news for VR's proponents who relish the technology's persuasive powers, but what does it mean for those inside the headset?
A Postcard from Ursula
A science fiction writer remembers his early correspondences with Ursula Le Guin.
Casserole Brigades and Corporate America
With Proprietary, Randall Mann comes into his own as a poet of wit and cynicism.
The Disillusionment of Post-Soviet Europe
To understand why Europe seems more balkanized now than ever, we must look to Eastern Europe’s failed reconstruction.
Black Panther Is Not the Movie We Deserve
The movie, unique for its Black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of Black American men.
Callimachus in Jelly Shoes
Burt’s latest collection reveals a poet looking back to formative moments in the 1980s when poetry first began to offer succor, and a playlist, for the fact of our weightful existence.
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