The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora
Sheung-King’s novel is rooted in a world that is disinterested in the white gaze and imagines a different kind of diasporic fiction.
Jan 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Thea Lim
When the Painting Has Really Begun When the Painting Has Really Begun
On the mid-career work of Cecily Brown and Inka Essenhigh.
Jan 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Pleasures of Shirley Hazzard’s Intricate Fictions The Pleasures of Shirley Hazzard’s Intricate Fictions
Her stories offer the opulent doom of ancient tragedy wrapped in mid-century garb.
Jan 14, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Dustin Illingworth
A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious
Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album is not unlike a radio broadcast from another reality.
Jan 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Life Preserver Life Preserver
It’s not pointless to love, finally. Just like training snakes, it calls for a refined technique and losing our shame of performing in front of the world in loincloths. And nerves…
Jan 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Javier Velaza
The Hidden Workers of Silicon Valley The Hidden Workers of Silicon Valley
Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff’s Voices From the Valley examines how the tech world has redefined our understanding work.
Jan 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Clio Chang
In the Epoch of Bronze In the Epoch of Bronze
We make the time pass. See, the devices laid out on the long tables, such ingenuity. This is the wave offering, this the heave offering. Waves of earth passing over you, into histo…
Jan 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / G.C. Waldrep
Anne Applebaum and the Crisis of Centrist Politics Anne Applebaum and the Crisis of Centrist Politics
In her new book, Applebaum attempts to understand why some of her intellectual bedfellows moved to the far right.
Jan 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
The Legend of MF DOOM The Legend of MF DOOM
On the legacy of a rap music auteur.
Jan 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk
How 1980s punk music birthed its own kind of radical politics.
Jan 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp