Tag: literature

Columns

Is it Obscene?

Rafia Zakaria

June 18, 2021

On fame, criticism, and disputes about transphobia.

I Put a Spell on You

Hannah Gold

June 17, 2021

The witch trial as an act of too-close reading

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

The Music Room

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

May 10, 2021

On loosing and finding Hindustani classical music.

The Visions of Henry Dumas

John Keene

May 03, 2021

On a genre-breaking forerunner of Afrofuturism.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

Loose Change

Madeleine Crum

March 18, 2021

A new novel’s conflict plays out in dollars and cents.

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.”

Surrealism’s Beating Heart

Reed McConnell

February 18, 2021

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

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self

Bailey Trela

January 25, 2021

On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.