Evan Kindley

I'm excited to announce that my book "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" will be published by Knopf in March 2027. It's a group biography of the New York School of Poets, centered on John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch.

The clowning industry needs a PR makeover. Our children are growing up in a world where they have never known a single non-scary clown

This paragraph by Aldous Huxley is quite a journey

Don't say you weren't warned evankindley.bandcamp.com/track/watch-...

I reviewed Emily Ogden's new book about Edgar Allan Poe for The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/2149...

I reviewed Emily Ogden's new book about Edgar Allan Poe for The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/2149...

I didn't trust AI to tell me whether AI will kill us all in the next decade. So I turned to the one branch of science more reliable than LLMs: Bracketology

From Christopher Isherwood's "My Guru and His Disciple"

"A good critic is a kind of lightning conductor who picks out the energy in what they read and passes it on to others" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How to do things with words

Came across this little Tim Curry memorial attached to a tree on Los Feliz Boulevard

This is an amazing essay: www.equator.org/articles/the...

Elizabeth Bowen

On our Close Readings subscription podcast, James Wood and @tricialockwood.bsky.social investigate Vladimir Nabokov’s debts to realism in his model of postmodernism 𝘗𝘯𝘪𝘯. Is it possible to define the style of the ‘master stylist’? Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Sad to see that 4Columns is no more — such a reliably interesting venue for criticism, had hoped to write for them some day mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso.bsky.social) on Fairfield Porter’s summer house monde

I asked my creative writing students to anonymously share their thoughts about AI. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

My soul is so tired but this is also very funny

It's National Alligator Day! Undated watercolor by... Mark Rothko!

Aaron Matz on what, exactly, satire is

A deeply troubled painter. His friend (my grandfather). A legacy of modern art. A sudden theft; it's psychic reverberations. The great art critic Sebastian Smee wrote about my family's story for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

I reviewed Francesca Wade's "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife" for the New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

THREE POEMS by Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/20/t...

"Escalator," a 1970 work by Photorealist painter Richard Estes

Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org

@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Did you guys spot this, in the latest New Yorker crossword?

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

My essay on the tense relationship between authors and AI, as embodied in a major lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now in the Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful. authorsguild.org/news/what-au...