The Question Dave Hickey Dared to Ask The Question Dave Hickey Dared to Ask
His work and life were committed to the trickiest of queries: Why do people despise critics?
Dec 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Schurman Wallace
Stephen Sondheim’s Art Stephen Sondheim’s Art
Despite beginning his career at the end of musical theater’s golden age, Sondheim helped bring the form to its artistic zenith.
Dec 1, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Shuja Haider
Fly, Pelican, Fly Fly, Pelican, Fly
What’s this all about? Let’s do a list. Die is last. Dawn is first. Underneath it all, the sea tries to say the sea is all there really is. Fly, pelican, fly. It’s not enough to lo…
Nov 30, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jim Moore
Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation
In her new novel, Jones offers a story of slavery and freedom in the Americas.
Nov 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure
Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Afforda...
Nov 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper
John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience
With its doctrine of fairness, A Theory of Justice transformed political philosophy. But what did it leave out?
Nov 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune” Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune”
His adaptation was the first to understand the scale—both intimate and epic—the sci-fi novel required to translate to film.
Nov 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Dennis Cooper’s Love Story of a Lifetime Dennis Cooper’s Love Story of a Lifetime
His new book, I Wished, asks: What can a novel do in the service of remembering a lost love?
Nov 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wolf
Who Is the University of Austin For? Who Is the University of Austin For?
The project’s uphill battle points to a deeper contradiction within what might be called neo-neoconservatism.
Nov 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
Diane di Prima and the Dream of the East Village Avant-Garde Diane di Prima and the Dream of the East Village Avant-Garde
The poet’s recently released memoir of the 1960s, Spring and Autumn Annals, is an essential document in the history of New York’s downtown art scene.
Nov 24, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Feeley