Tag: criticism

Columns

Victims of History

Federico Perelmuter

May 31, 2022

Antonio Di Benedetto captured the contradictions of midcentury Latin America.

Tricks of the Trade

Jack Hanson

May 25, 2022

In Emily Hall’s “The Longcut,” an artist prevaricates endlessly about the nature of her work.

Plenty Ventured, Little Gained

Josh Gabert-Doyon

May 18, 2022

What kind of political project might VC firms be shepherding?

The Irreconcilable Fanny Howe

Jamie Hood

May 16, 2022

Fanny Howe’s oeuvre embraces unknowingness.

Working Landscapes

John Merrick

May 05, 2022

Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.

A Fabric of Surfaces

Victoria Baena

April 27, 2022

Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John reaches across the years to pose questions of art, love, and self-possession.

Weak at the Knees

James Wham

April 07, 2022

“Ahed’s Knee” has little to say about the gravest crimes of the state it sets out to criticize.

Silver Screen Sphinxes

Christina Newland

April 04, 2022

How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.

He, Robot

Ian Wang

March 31, 2022

“After Yang” struggles to be more than a metaphor.

Ireland, We Hardly Knew Ye

Jack Sheehan

March 29, 2022

Against history-by-columnist.

The World Was Just an Address

A. S. Hamrah

March 24, 2022

The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.

The Billionaire’s Bard

Rob Madole

March 16, 2022

On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson.