Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest book in English, In the Land of the Cyclops, translated by Martin Aitken, is an essay collection on art, literature, and life that opens with an apparition of a child’s ...

The cover of Siri Hustvedt’s latest collection of essays, a self-portrait by the artist Louise Bourgeois, depicts a childlike figure standing inside a Janus-faced head. The profusion of Freudian ...

There are many passages in "Known and Strange Things," Teju Cole's refreshingly unclassifiable new book of essays, that just hang in the air suspended, forcing you to reckon with their meaning. "The ...

Left: John Berger, ‘Portraits: John Berger on Artists’ (2015), edited by Tom Overton (image courtesy Verso Books); right: Julian Barnes, ‘Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art’ (2015) (image courtesy ...

In this erudite and engaging collection of more than 30 essays, poet and UC-Berkeley professor Hass (Time and Materials) covers topics as eclectic as the lives of great writers; art’s relationship to ...

If you’re looking for timely cultural criticism, you might more easily find it on YouTube than through a digital or print article. “When I was first writing blogs, the only people that would see those ...