Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism
Books & the Arts / February 26, 2025 Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s natu…
Feb 26, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs
Djuna Barnes’s Playthings Djuna Barnes’s Playthings
Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate.
Feb 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Missouri Williams
Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone? Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone?
The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks we’ve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept.
Feb 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Cora Currier
The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis
Her fiction was miscast as merely transgressive. Rather, her novels were interested in understanding life in its most unvarnished and unmediated.
Feb 20, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Gracie Hadland
What the Paiva Family Means to Brazil What the Paiva Family Means to Brazil
In I’m Still Here, one Brazilian clan’s confrontation with the military dictatorship dramatizes the last half-century of Brazil’s democratic travails.
Feb 19, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Andre Pagliarini
Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion
The activist scholar devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world.
Feb 18, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Yasmina Price
“The Pitt” and the Gritty Return of the Hospital Drama “The Pitt” and the Gritty Return of the Hospital Drama
In the frenzied medical drama, the limits and problems of the healthcare system serve as the basis for the show’s plot.
Feb 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
The Uncomfortable Genius of Mike Leigh The Uncomfortable Genius of Mike Leigh
In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds us that a family dinner can tell the story of a whole society.
Feb 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Henri Bergson’s States of Change Henri Bergson’s States of Change
Why did one of the early 20th century’s most famous philosophers go out of fashion?
Feb 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital” The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital”
In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist masterpiece by going back to basics.
Feb 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Alyssa Battistoni