Tracing the journey of the Psychoanalytic Therapy & Research Centre in Mumbai, in the week of Sigmund Freud’s birth ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.” ...

On the whole, Murray’s combination of collective psychoanalysis and reportage is powerful and engaging. It will energise conservative readers, much as leftish types warm to Owen Jones or liberals to ...

Key issues in literary interpretation. Cultural criticism, Marxism, structuralism and deconstruction, feminist theory, ethnic criticism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics ...

It’s because they know their fear to be true: that criticism is in crisis. This lament has haunted every generation of ...

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge.

Criticism isn’t constructive when it's persistent, targeted, and demeaning. Instead, it becomes a means of asserting power ...

The "lobotomobile" crisscrossed America in the 1960s teaching about lobotomies. This dark period in psychiatric history holds vital lessons for today.

This study highlights the significance of space as a narrative component capable of opening up a text to various possibilities ...

Books & the Arts / The radical life and work of the historian. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Christopher Hill was one of ...

In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...