Book of Dolls 45 Book of Dolls 45
God’s carpenters are busy putting nails in the idea of heaven. Make no mistake. It’s hell. If you see my hand shake, do not worry. It is just the motion that persists, with or with…
Dec 24, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Bond
Grid Grid
All energy, to the engineer, or the soul, is the same. Today’s illumination might have come, way back, from either love or pain— no whiff, when the light flicked on,…
Dec 24, 2019 / Books & the Arts / James Richardson
The Entwined Lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso The Entwined Lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso
Understanding Picasso’s art, Gilot’s memoir shows, is inseparable from understanding both his genius and monstrousness.
Dec 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
Decolonization and the Pursuit of an Egalitarian International Order Decolonization and the Pursuit of an Egalitarian International Order
A new book looks at the mid-20th century cohort of African and Caribbean leaders who attempted to demand new rules from the world system.
Dec 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Immerwahr
Every Generation Gets Its Own ‘Little Women’ Every Generation Gets Its Own ‘Little Women’
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation faces two challenges: to be a good film and to mark how we can imagine women—as sisters, as antagonists, as wives, as workers—in our own time.
Dec 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis
A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.
Dec 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature
As with Pilate, the fierce outsider and moral conscience of Song of Solomon, Morrison never asked for the proverbial seat at the table. Instead, she pulled the entire table over to...
Dec 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
The Radical Life and Times of Crystal Eastman The Radical Life and Times of Crystal Eastman
A new biography reveals how the feminist, pacifist, labor activist, and socialist fused the best strains of American leftism into one.
Dec 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
A Queer Love Story That Does Away With the Male Gaze A Queer Love Story That Does Away With the Male Gaze
Set in 18th-century France, Céline Sciamma’s new film Portrait of a Lady on Fire finds a new way to chronicle a queer romance.
Dec 5, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
From ‘Diary’ From ‘Diary’
I hate this sweater but I’m too cold not to wear it as a metaphor for my career. My therapist says yes corporations take advantage of human beings’ ambitious nature. …
Dec 3, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Marisa Crawford