Criticism Archives

The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday

by Kyle Paoletta,

How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm

Some Like It Hot

by Sophie Lewis,

Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society

“If Only I Could Begin Again!”

by Vivian Gornick,

The mystery of a writer’s métier

Good Bad Bad Good

by Adam Wilson,

What was the Golden Age of TV?

Like This or Die

by Christian Lorentzen,

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

What China Threat?

by Kishore Mahbubani,

How the United States and China can avoid war

Comforting Myths

by Rabih Alameddine,

Notes from a purveyor

Hostile Work Environments

by Elaine Blair,

A sexual harassment reading list

Framing The Shadows

by Vince Passaro,

The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

Flesh and Blood

by Vivian Gornick,

Three close encounters with Sons and Lovers

Who’s Laughing Now?

by Tom Bissell,

The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

American Expansion

by Helen Vendler,

The innovations of A.R. Ammons

Killing Bill O’Reilly

by Matthew Stevenson,

The disgraced broadcaster’s distortions of history

The Watchmen

by Alan Jacobs,

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

Abandon All Hope

by Nat Segnit,

Hieronymus Bosch comes home

Something Big

by Geoff Dyer,

The legend of the Watts Towers

There are Other Forces at Work

by John Darnielle,

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

Slender Mercies

by Rick Moody,

The gospel according to Extreme Weight Loss

Rethinking Extinction

by James K. Boyce,

Toward a less gloomy environmentalism

A Goose in a Dress

by Tanya Gold,

In which our intrepid restaurant critic submits to the dreams and excesses of New York’s most fashionable eateries

Counter Culture

by Caleb Crain,

Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

Legends of the Lost

by David Thomson,

The discreet charm of movies we cannot see

The Tale of the Tape

by Lili Anolik,

The miracle of Straight Life

America’s Ancestry Craze

by Maud Newton,

Making sense of our family-tree obsession

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

by Michael Robbins,

A poet’s guide to metal

What Is Literature?

by Arthur Krystal,

In defense of the canon

The Lost Yearling

by Lauren Groff,

An American classic fades away

Damage Control

by Ben Lerner,

The modern art world’s tyranny of price

The Shining Path

by Jay Kirk,

Room 237 and the Kubrick cult

Our Town

by Ariel Sabar,

How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, his laboratory

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