Bonfire of the Humanities Bonfire of the Humanities
Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Mistakes Get Made Mistakes Get Made
Democracy floats on currents of change. Is it ever capable of managing them?
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Lears
Marriage Marriage
At the lowest stratum of Troy, beneath the Skaean Gates and broken dishes and bronze flakes as brittle as fallen leaves, Schliemann found a pair of toads in hibernation since the time of Hector and Andromache. To think of what survives!
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Devin Johnston
Koi Koi
Koi converse in slow circles of what we have not seen Mercy and the dark bottom of the pond The recirculating pump we call karma is only a sound and mysterious as well being A comforting surrounding to lives of endless destinations
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Allan Peterson
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Antal Szerb and the world’s stubborn magic.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
Egypt’s Revolutionary Artist Takes On the NYPD Egypt’s Revolutionary Artist Takes On the NYPD
Ganzeer’s new show opens today in New York.
Jan 16, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Ali Gharib
The Lower Depths The Lower Depths
Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales is a carnival of melancholy, melodrama and the polymorphously perverse.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Inoculation as Metaphor Inoculation as Metaphor
Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a slipshod book full of brilliant moments.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Speed Kills Speed Kills
Has digital technology destroyed leisure?
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Less Is More Less Is More
The dense details in Berlin’s memorial museums overwhelm the stories they try to tell.
Jan 14, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein