Tag: criticism

Columns

I Put a Spell on You

Hannah Gold

June 17, 2021

The witch trial as an act of too-close reading

American Fables

David Klion

June 15, 2021

George Packer seeks refuge in political myth.

Realism’s Revenge

John Merrick

June 07, 2021

Do we have more to learn from the nineteenth-century novel?

The Eye of the Beholder

Shivani Radhakrishnan

May 27, 2021

Encounters with art in Second Place and beyond

She Stays Winning

Beatrice Loayza

May 19, 2021

A genre of “feminist” filmmaking conflates suffering and empowerment.

Narrative Napalm

Noah Kulwin

May 17, 2021

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

Fake Realness

Adam Morris

May 12, 2021

A new book confronts the gay bar’s slow decline.

Ways of Knowing

Edna Bonhomme

May 05, 2021

A love letter to Black interdisciplinary thought.

The Visions of Henry Dumas

John Keene

May 03, 2021

On a genre-breaking forerunner of Afrofuturism.

Social Justice Tourism

Jaime Chu

April 30, 2021

A tech travelogue set in rural China obfuscates material conditions

A Theory of Thorstein Veblen

Bruce Robbins

April 12, 2021

A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.

Beyond Gay Imperialism

Samuel Huneke

March 23, 2021

Complicating the “global divide” in LGBTQ protections.