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The Cruel Genius of Robert Plunket’s Gay Satires The Cruel Genius of Robert Plunket’s Gay Satires
His 1992 novel Love Junkie might be one of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era.
Jul 23, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wolf
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The Peculiar Legacy of E.E. Cummings The Peculiar Legacy of E.E. Cummings
Revisiting his first book, The Enormous Room, a reader can get a sense of everything appealing and appalling in his work.
Jul 22, 2024 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs
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Can You Put a Dollar Amount on White Privilege? Can You Put a Dollar Amount on White Privilege?
Tracie McMillan’s The White Bonus attempts to quantify the literal cost of racism in America.
Jul 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Martin
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The World’s Problems Explained in One Issue: Electricity The World’s Problems Explained in One Issue: Electricity
Brett Christophers’s account of the market-induced failure to transition to renewables is his latest entry in a series of books demystifying a multi-pronged global crisis.
Jul 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Trevor Jackson
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The Planetary Vision of Soviet Russia’s Great Modernist Novel The Planetary Vision of Soviet Russia’s Great Modernist Novel
Andrey Platonov’s masterpiece Chevengur imagined a politics of solidarity that placed at its center the health of the planet.
Jul 16, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Maria Chehonadskih
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Christina Ramberg’s Public Secrets Christina Ramberg’s Public Secrets
A look at the life and work of one Chicago's great 20th-century painters.
Jul 15, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
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The Rise and Fall of the Marvel Cinematic Universe The Rise and Fall of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
How a movie studio and its head honcho redefined moviemaking for the worst.
Jul 11, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta
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Why Did “Furiosa” Flop? Why Did “Furiosa” Flop?
A web of interconnected reasons might explain why George Miller’s long-awaited new entry to his Mad Max series failed in the box office.
Jul 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
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In Poetry’s Church In Poetry’s Church
More than a half century of the Poetry Project
Jul 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Frere-Jones
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LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography
A new career survey at the MoMA is a perfect illustration of the photographer's mission: to reframe how viewers see the working-class and low-income people whom she counts as kin....
Jul 3, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer