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Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

Zadie Smith! Jesmyn Ward! Ben Lerner! Naomi Klein! 26 books out in paperback this September.

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 30, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

Naomi Kanakia Wonders Why Nobody Talks About the Thing We All Need

By Naomi Kanakia | April 16, 2024

Ben Lerner on the Dangers of Digital Technology

Ben Lerner on the Dangers of Digital Technology

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 8, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ahmad Almallah is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ahmad Almallah is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Sylvia Plath, Ben Lerner, Ghassan Kanafani, and More

By Diana Arterian | November 2, 2023

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By Gabrielle Bellot | September 5, 2023

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By Peter Ho Davies | September 6, 2022

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

D.S. Waldman Considers the Unbridgeable Gap Between Poetry and Any Single Poem

By D.S. Waldman | August 15, 2022

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

Stephen Marche Considers Contemporary Fiction’s Slow Abandonment of Literary Voice

By Stephen Marche | September 15, 2021

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

Vince Passaro Recommends Great Books About the Big Apple

By Vince Passaro | September 15, 2021

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

Shya Scanlon on Oyler, Lockwood, Wilder, Boyle, and More

By Shya Scanlon | June 17, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Coffee House Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Coffee House Press

On Working Outside the Margins of Publishing

By Corinne Segal | April 2, 2021

Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

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By Marion Winik | December 14, 2020

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer's House

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer's House

Phoebe Hamilton-Jones in Praise of Literary Tourism (Done Well)

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones | December 8, 2020

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