Daniel Joseph Martinez’s Blunt Statements Daniel Joseph Martinez’s Blunt Statements
What does it mean for an American artist to make photographs using the image of the German revolutionary Ulrike Meinhof?
Feb 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
‘Black Panther,’ Beyond Expectations ‘Black Panther,’ Beyond Expectations
The big-budget pop movie surprises with themes and emotions that might escape the attention of action fans but are present all the same.
Feb 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Where the wall meets the river Where the wall meets the river
the neighbors who begged it built are astonished they can no longer see the river taste it sweeten it for the fevered child Where the wall meets the river the neighbors cease to be…
Feb 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Shanna Compton
Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance
In her diaries, the German novelist recorded a life of watching and being watched.
Feb 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
In the Cuban Sphere In the Cuban Sphere
Was Cuba under Castro a model for anti-imperialism in Latin America or a source of instability in the region?
Feb 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Iber
Into the Latin American Songbook Into the Latin American Songbook
No contemporary artist has reimagined Latin American folk songs as elegantly and tenderly as Natalia Lafourcade.
Feb 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
What Axes Are Good For What Axes Are Good For
is murdering unguarded presidents of countries you were not born in. This is a reminder that I was not born here or at all I stumbled into this limp living like a glue trap & s…
Feb 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Brad Trumpfheller
Life Among the Bundists Life Among the Bundists
Through his family history, Mark Mazower maps the upheavals and dislocations of early 20th-century Europe and Russia.
Feb 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Rise and Fall of Clintonism The Rise and Fall of Clintonism
What two recent books on Bill and Hillary tell us about the political and economic costs of the New Democrats.
Feb 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper
When We Were Shepherds When We Were Shepherds
Well, we weren’t the best. We merely needed fleece. Were the sheep bred? Yes. Fed? Frequently. Yet they grew depressed. Wherever they went, bellwethers, rebels, they preferred els…
Feb 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Caki Wilkinson