In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

Is AI really likely to wipe out humanity within the next decade? We used the most scientific tool in existence to get an answer.

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Literary criticism is a supremely occasional skill, where you have to be bold enough to operate where there aren’t any...

Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 17 August · 1hr 25min

Reflecting on planning, commissioning, editing, and writing film reviews for nearly a decade at a one-of-a-kind arts criticism website.

Fairfield Porter was an insider among the East Coast elite, but his own portraits of life in Southampton and Maine give the charming impression of an outsider looking in.

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

Where we're coming from and where we're going.

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.

A new history of satire wants to limit the genre to its political ramifications, but satirists are often interested in the whole person and their capacity for vice.

Decades after a brazen art theft drove Merry White’s father to despair, federal agents closed in on one last missing work. For White, the search is personal.

The author knew recognition of her works would take time—and planned accordingly.

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How a military term became a culture-war shibboleth.

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death posited that we act out in antisocial ways—and even embrace authoritarians—because we cannot face our own unavoidable demise.

Creators should demand credit, not just compensation.

Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...

For years, his biography on press releases was just four words long: ‘Eagle scout, Missoula, Montana.’ David Lynch...

This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New Yo…

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

Close Readings · Episode

Rebecca Schiffman’s fourth album kicks off with a nine-minute epic — a nervy opening move in these days of ever-decreasing attention spans. But it’s a gamble that pays off beautifully, as Before the F...

Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.

Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.

Why his turn-of-the-century travelogue still resonates.

Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”