The Art of Vivian Maier The Art of Vivian Maier
Her photography made its subject everyday life, but her life makes us ask: Who gets to be an artist?
May 30, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Jaffe
What Was the Wiretap? What Was the Wiretap?
How the long and strange history of wiretapping continues to shape how Americans conceive of surveillance and privacy.
May 26, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Lora Kelley
The Ardor of Tessa Hadley The Ardor of Tessa Hadley
Her novels are masterful domestic dramas that obsess over the mechanics of adultery and illicit passion.
May 25, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Haigney
The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter
A conversation with historian Donna Murch about the past, present, and future of Black radical organizing.
May 24, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques
Vivek Chibber on the Future of Marxist Thought Vivek Chibber on the Future of Marxist Thought
His new book The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn is an impassioned argument for centering class politics in both theory and praxis.
May 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The Disastrous History of Rikers The Disastrous History of Rikers
How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.
May 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kay Gabriel
Olga Ravn’s Office Novel in Space Olga Ravn’s Office Novel in Space
The Employees offers a surreal and biting account of all the hazards and indignities of the contemporary workplace.
May 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Loudis
The Sea According to Rachel Carson The Sea According to Rachel Carson
Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.
May 17, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation
Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects.
May 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
I Wake in the Dark I Wake in the Dark
I wake in the dark and reach out to snug you close and your arm comes free. It falls from your body like bread. Like wet rope. And my not yet wakened mind whispers, This is what i…
May 14, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Michael Bazzett