Deep Dive

Digging in to the Queer Subtext of My Fair Lady

Rebecca Renner Goes Behind the Scenes of an American Cinematic Classic

 
By Rebecca Renner  February 26, 2019
Deep Dive

If Beale Street Could Talk: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

By Ben Rybeck  February 22, 2019
Deep Dive

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: What, Exactly, Is Its Source Material?

By Literary Hub  February 22, 2019
Deep Dive

When the Highest Paid Hollywood Director Was a Woman

By Sasha Archibald  February 21, 2019
Deep Dive

The Crucial Role of the Sidekick in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

By Ben Rybeck  February 21, 2019
Deep Dive

BlacKkKlansman: Antiracist Callout Disguised as a Feel-Good Cop Movie

By Ben Rybeck  February 20, 2019
Deep Dive

A Star Is Born: Meta-Critique or Repetition of a Tired Cycle?

By Ben Rybeck  February 19, 2019
Deep Dive

Transforming a Tiny Mexican Town into an Iconic Hollywood Backdrop

By W.K. Stratton  February 15, 2019
Deep Dive

On Kate Bush’s Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights

By Brendan Mathews  February 13, 2019
Deep Dive

The Death of a Symbol: How Western Writers Exploit the Tiger

By Aditi Natasha Kini  February 11, 2019
Close Reading

Sense or Sensibility… What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

By Devoney Looser  February 11, 2019
Deep Dive

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

By Gabrielle Bellot  February 8, 2019
Deep Dive

Poet, Artist, Erotic Muse of Mexico’s Avant Garde: Rediscovering Nahui Olin

By Claire Mullen  February 1, 2019
Deep Dive

Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

By Tobias Carroll  February 1, 2019
Deep Dive

Living Fernando Pessoa’s Dreamlife in Lisbon

By Saleem Haddad  January 31, 2019
Deep Dive

But What Will Your Daughters Think?

By Emily Bernard  January 30, 2019
Deep Dive

The Coded Queer Lives of a Hollywood Classic

By David Thomson  January 30, 2019
Deep Dive

When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

By Gabrielle Bellot  January 28, 2019
Close Reading

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

By Emily Van Duyne  January 24, 2019
Close Reading

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

By Jeanna Kadlec  January 23, 2019
Deep Dive

How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

By Tessa Hadley  January 16, 2019
Deep Dive

This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

By Rebecca Romney  January 15, 2019
Close Reading

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy’s Complaint

By Emily Temple  January 11, 2019
Deep Dive

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

By Gabrielle Bellot  December 13, 2018
Criticism

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

By James Schamus  December 12, 2018
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