SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations
SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides and Blood Orange’s Negro Swan capture two high-wire acts of musical reinvention.
Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz Nate Chinen’s Daring New History of Modern Jazz
Nate Chinen’s new book confronts the contemporary jazz moment with clarity and authority.
Oct 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
The German Century The German Century
A new book documents the ordinary lives of Germans caught in a country and century marked by regime change, economic catastrophe, and war.
Oct 4, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
Who Owns Kafka? Who Owns Kafka?
The complicated legacy of the writer’s estate.
Oct 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley
Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction
Part sci-fi thriller, part genre-fiction, Severance follows a millennial New Yorker’s struggle to survive.
Oct 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham
Andrew Bujalski’s Strip-Mall Realism Andrew Bujalski’s Strip-Mall Realism
In Support the Girls, the filmmaker offers us warmhearted comedy about coping with the intolerable.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh
The legendary reporter and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free
In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty
Barbara Ehrenreich Takes On the Wellness Industry Barbara Ehrenreich Takes On the Wellness Industry
In her new book, Ehrenreich argues that accepting death means being able to live more fully.
Sep 13, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Megan Erickson
How and Why the First Amendment Became a Weapon for the Right How and Why the First Amendment Became a Weapon for the Right
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has recast free speech and the Constitution’s core principles in order to entrench the power of employers and the wealthy.
Sep 12, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jedediah Britton-Purdy