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Wander Woman

Emma Myers

March 04, 2021

On Nomadland and the cinema of peripatetic women.

Dancing on a Volcano

Ben Schwartz

March 04, 2021

Two films from 1938 tackle the French Revolution

The Talking Cure

Hannah Gold

March 03, 2021

On Christine Smallwood’s novel of neuroses.

Stepping Twice in the Same River

Juan José Saer

March 01, 2021

A translated excerpt from Juan José Saer's “El río sin orillas.”

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides

American Gothic

B.D. McClay

February 22, 2021

On Netflix, the haunted house gets saged.

Surrealism’s Beating Heart

Reed McConnell

February 18, 2021

On Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, and leaving musehood behind.

Live, Laugh, Log Off

Becca Rothfeld

February 17, 2021

Patricia Lockwood’s “internet novel” belies its categorization.

Arts and Statecraft

Sophie Haigney

February 09, 2021

Is the history of America a history of craft?

Goodbye, Dolly

Tom Sexton

February 08, 2021

Mythmaking in Dolly Parton’s America.

Head in the Cloud

Megan Marz

February 04, 2021

Google: How do you write a memoir of the internet?

Going Medieval on Your Gram

Esmé Hogeveen

February 02, 2021

Blackletter fonts find new life on politicized social media.