Criticism Online Enter the Tang Chat By Noah Warren Reviewing poems from the Tang Dynasty alongside Xi Chuan’s collection Bloom, Noah Warren encounters two projects that view poetry as a refuge of value and solace in times of upheaval.
Criticism Online Five Personas in an Orgy By Zack Graham David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future is the culmination of a rich and varied career. It’s also full of sexy alien surgery and strange, koan-like language.
Criticism Online Style Is on the Inside By Lily Meyer Is there such thing as style for translators? Lily Meyer looks at three different novels with the same translator to find out.
Criticism Online The Stars Say You’re Special By Daniel Spielberger A recent novel by Anna Dorn situates astrology within a zeitgeist that constantly dangles simulations for escape.
Criticism Online Heterosexual Vortex By Crispin Long Watching the contestants on Love Is Blind and Married at First Sight, Crispin Long sees a glimmer of a past self.
Criticism Online Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility By Som-Mai Nguyen Writers in the Vietnamese diaspora are too eager to signal ethnic authenticity. Have we no shame?
Criticism Online Wish Fulfillment on Fire Island By Christopher Gonzalez Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island satirizes the toxic hierarchies in the gay community, but does it go far enough?
Criticism Online Daddy’s Issues By Katherine Angel When scrutinizing the father-daughter relationship, we rush to pathologize the daughter for her “Daddy Issues,” but what of the father’s “Daughter Issues”?
Criticism Online The Artist’s Seven Minutes By Ariana Harwicz & Ariana Saenz Espinoza Joseph Ponthus and Imres Kertész are paragons of that rare breed of writer who can crystalize the beauty of life in the midst of mechanized death and horror.
Criticism Online I’m Certain About “The Man Without Qualities” By Sophie Atkinson Decoding Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities felt impossible — until a poet in Vienna programmed a new version of the sprawling classic.
Criticism Online Art Criticism That Pauses To Breastfeed By Nikki Shaner-Bradford In recent books by Jazmina Barrera and Kate Zambreno, each study of pregnancy becomes an embedded study of the life of the writer.
Criticism Online Material World By Priyanka Champaneri Is it possible to live a spiritual life and also enjoy material pleasures?
