Books & the Arts

Where Is the New Cyberfeminism?

Where Is the New Cyberfeminism? Where Is the New Cyberfeminism?

Virtual reality remains stuck in age-old ideas about women and their bodies.

Jul 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Cecilia D’Anastasio

The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right

The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right

In one sense: The jokes do change when the characters are women, who incite you to laugh through a graveyard of America’s bloody history.

Jul 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Donald Trump Blueprint

The Donald Trump Blueprint The Donald Trump Blueprint

Trump inhabits interiors in lieu of an interior life and shows them off with hyperbolic self-celebration. Gilt by association!

Jul 26, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin

Across the Border

Across the Border Across the Border

A new biography of William Henry Ellis reminds us how much we still don’t know about the elusive history of racial subterfuge in America.

Jul 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Michael A. Elliott

The Partisan Reviewer

The Partisan Reviewer The Partisan Reviewer

In two recent essay collections, Tim Parks explores why we bother with reading and writing books.

Jul 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld

Woody Guthrie

Top 10 Woody Guthrie Songs Top 10 Woody Guthrie Songs

Guthrie composed some of the most powerful protest songs ever written.

Jul 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg

Gabby Douglas at the 2012 Olympic trials in San Jose, California (Peter Read Miller)

Out of Sight, Top of Mind Out of Sight, Top of Mind

A new book conveys the powerful role photography plays in sports. But the photographers are still something of a mystery.

Jul 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ian F. Blair

Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius

Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius

In the early 2000s, the painter rediscovered a strain of modernism that doesn’t aspire to purity or certainty, but rather is willing to remain, as de Kooning once put it, “wrapped ...

Jul 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Lies After the War

Lies After the War Lies After the War

We went to Bull Run, or was it Manassas, one of those, past Battlefield Ford, past Glory Days bar in the strip mall, or was it before the mall was built, or was it after the mall…

Jul 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Miller Oberman

Europe’s Other Migration Crisis

Europe’s Other Migration Crisis Europe’s Other Migration Crisis

Eastern European countries are attempting to deter immigration today for the same reason they tried to halt emigration a century ago: to protect themselves as ethnic nations.

Jul 13, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Connelly

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