Books & the Arts

Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

The Nazis Among Us

The Nazis Among Us The Nazis Among Us

Fatih Akin’s In the Fade.

May 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Paul Hockenos

The Magic of Denis Johnson

The Magic of Denis Johnson The Magic of Denis Johnson

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden isn't exactly a sequel to Jesus’ Son, but it has the same breezy, epiphanic quality.

May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / J. Robert Lennon

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s

Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s

They weren’t friends, and they weren’t all of the same generation, but they all shared a similar view of how we should relate to nature. 

May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben

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