How Did Vietnam Transform White Supremacy? How Did Vietnam Transform White Supremacy?
Kathleen Belew’s sobering new history tracks the hidden relationship between the war and a resurgence in racial violence.
Jun 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Blanchfield
James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism
The search for cultural diversity and social equality.
Jun 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II
The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’ The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’
Adam Winkler's new history argues that the problem with Citizens United is its inability to see the distorting effects of concentrated wealth.
Jun 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Cole
Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated
Taking drugs and recovering are not always as incompatible as they seem.
Jun 5, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Away With Monsieur Periné Away With Monsieur Periné
The Colombian band delicately balances their idiosyncratic swing sound with elements of Latin pop music.
Jun 1, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
The Presence and Absence of Basquiat The Presence and Absence of Basquiat
You’d have to go back to Bloomsbury to find another set as insular, self-promoting, self-destructive, imitated, parodied, publicized, and at last mythologized as the crowd that hun…
May 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
We Learned the Mountains by Heart We Learned the Mountains by Heart
We went to school we ate pink beef we drank lots of water we snorted ritalin our nostrils turned red we lifted weights we killed a mama moose we sold her teeth online we poked each…
May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Holbert
The Standard of Pure Abstraction The Standard of Pure Abstraction
The painters Joe Overstreet and James Little subvert the demands of representation.
May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Broadway’s Golden-Age Shows and #MeToo Broadway’s Golden-Age Shows and #MeToo
A certain critical consternation awaited the current productions of My Fair Lady and Carousel—and with good reason.
May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor
Even after Emancipation, Kossula Oluales spent the rest of his life trying to recover what was lost.
May 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques