A.O. Scott

New York

Critic at Large, Book Review at The New York Times

film critic, NY Times; author of BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRITICISM from @penguinpress

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Slow and Steady, This Poem Will Win Your Heart

2 weeks ago | news.nestia.com | A.O. Scott

Slow and Steady, This Poem Will Win Your Heart A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it. Share full article 0 Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott June 12, 2025 You can hear a reading of this poem, and play our game, at the bottom of the page.
Understanding Edna St. Vincent Millay's New York

1 month ago | nytimes.com | A.O. Scott |Aliza Aufrichtig

Yesterday we put our heads down to look closely at Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo" - at the words and syllables and even individual letters that make it a poem. (If you're just joining us, this is the third day of our Poetry Challenge. There's plenty of time to catch up, but you may want to start on Day 1.)But there's a lot more to see. Those words are about something; they come from somewhere; they belong to someone.
Say, Old Sport

2 months ago | nytimes.com | A.O. Scott

"The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's tale of a tragic Long Island millionaire, was published 100 years ago to tepid reviews and disappointing sales. Since then, especially in the decades since World War II, it has become a staple of English classes and a fixture in popular culture. The novel has been memed, mocked, tweaked and reimagined countless times, a multifarious afterlife that I wrote about recently in The Times. In my article, I explored some of the reasons for this longevity.
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over Pop Culture

Mar 27, 2025 | entertainment-mag.com | A.O. Scott

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves? A collage of photos and videos including the actors Robert Redford and Leonard DiCaprio as Gatsby, scenes from “Seinfeld” and “Family Guy,” and an image of the first edition of the book. And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into a book that its author considered calling “Trimalchio in West Egg.” Would we still be talking about it if he had?
Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.

Mar 21, 2025 | news.nestia.com | A.O. Scott

Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott March 20, 2025 Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it is a long-time favorite — than as a technical description.
Los archivos del asesinato de JFK no detendrá las teorías de la conspiración

Mar 20, 2025 | nytimes.com | A.O. Scott

En su tercer día en el cargo, en enero, el presidente Donald Trump ordenó liberar documentos de los Archivos Nacionales relacionados con los asesinatos de John F. Kennedy, su hermano Robert y el reverendo Martin Luther King. Como Trump declaró en campaña: "Han pasado 60 años, es hora de que el pueblo estadounidense conozca la VERDAD". La verdad es que nada en los archivos va a disipar la niebla de hipótesis, rumores y especulaciones que se arremolina en torno a estos asesinatos.
J.F.K., Blown Away, What Else Do I Have to Say?

Mar 19, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | A.O. Scott

Kennedy’s killing was almost immediately folded into a narrative structure that had already surfaced in popular culture as well as politics, a mode of storytelling that treated public events as the expressions of secret plots. Richard Condon’s Cold War thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” (published in 1959 and adapted by Hollywood in 1962) and Thomas Pynchon’s shaggy-dog experimental whodunit “V.” are among the best-known pre-assassination examples of this paranoid style in American fiction.
2 Books From Other Shores

Mar 8, 2025 | news.nestia.com | A.O. Scott

Image Credit...Mike Belleme for The New York Times By A.O. Scott Dear readers,I’m not going to get into the various reasons you might have for wanting to go somewhere else right now — somewhere, let’s say, on the other side of an international border. The fact is that Americans have always been eager tourists and willing expatriates, game to study the histories and decode the customs of neighboring and far-flung places.
I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back

Feb 22, 2025 | news.nestia.com | A.O. Scott

I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Feb. 21, 2025 Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly and elegant: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, crisply punctuated, with syllables cut to measure.
I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back

Feb 21, 2025 | nytimes.com | A.O. Scott

Here's a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it's a proper old-school sonnet, orderly and elegant: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, crisply punctuated, with syllables cut to measure. But like a great many sonnets - most famously the 154 written by William Shakespeare - "my dreams, my works" is part of a sequence. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was a modern master of the form.

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