Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage
American Spy examines the intersections between spycraft and living in America as a black person.
Jan 20, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Opinion Opinion
It was a lean-to one could live in so long as it never rained. It was a grain of salt close up, looking like a crystal, growing from itself like an outcrop of land. I…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Militello
Formalwear Formalwear
“everything takes form, even infinity” —Gaston Bachelard, from The Dialectics of Outside and Inside So I died. Then I filled out a form. It asked how I made do & a living &…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Devon Walker-Figueroa
The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez
His fiction and nonfiction can be seen as facets of a single, lifelong narrative enterprise.
Jan 13, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Tony Wood
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