Werner Herzog’s Exit From Civilization Werner Herzog’s Exit From Civilization
In his debut as a novelist, the filmmaker takes us to the jungles of the Philippines.
Sep 8, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Paul Franz
Is the Avant-Garde Still Avant-Garde? Is the Avant-Garde Still Avant-Garde?
Today’s radical art movements can always congeal into tomorrow’s orthodoxy.
Sep 7, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
[Take immortality, God, but give] [Take immortality, God, but give]
Take immortality, God, but give me this cold apple cellar. Take the souls and other toys, but let us live: not-Adam and not-Eve not your son’s— my son’s life. Wet hole in a cellar…
Sep 6, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Dmitry Blizniuk
Jordan Peele’s Extraterrestrial Americana Jordan Peele’s Extraterrestrial Americana
Telling a tale of cowboys, aliens, and Hollywood, the director's third feature film, Nope, is his most successful cinematic spectacle to date.
Sep 6, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
The Mysteries of Adam Smith The Mysteries of Adam Smith
How to understand Adam Smith’s politics
Sep 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Glory Liu
Where Solidarity, Abolition, and Queer History Meet Where Solidarity, Abolition, and Queer History Meet
Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison makes a compelling case for abolition as a central part of queer politics.
Sep 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Gordon-Loebl
The Secret Powers of William Klein The Secret Powers of William Klein
Using the street as his studio, he did more than just freeze a time and place in one frame. His photographs captured the world in motion.
Aug 31, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Peter Weiss and the Riddle of Representation Peter Weiss and the Riddle of Representation
His painterly fictions strive against language’s limitations to accurately describe the world in all its horror and randomness.
Aug 30, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Boyd
In Filipino Politics, What Is Fact and What Is Fiction? In Filipino Politics, What Is Fact and What Is Fiction?
A novel by Miguel Syjuco, I Was the President’s Mistress!!, deconstructs the spectacle of celebrity, corruption, and polyphony that defines the nation’s political contests.
Aug 29, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Bryony Lau