Why Is Yoko Ono Still Misunderstood? Why Is Yoko Ono Still Misunderstood?
A recent biography helps shed light on her life before and after John Lennon—making a case for the primacy of her art and its lasting influence.
Nov 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Quinn Moreland
The Uncertain History of the Bronx Fires The Uncertain History of the Bronx Fires
In Born in Flames, Bench Ansfield asks, who, or what, is responsible for the arson epidemic that afflicted the borough in the 1970s and ’80s?
Nov 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp
Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy? Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy?
A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People.
Nov 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Woody Allen’s New York—and Mine Woody Allen’s New York—and Mine
The director’s vision of New York City once seemed aspirational, but his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo suggests he may not understand the city beyond its fiction.
Nov 1, 2025 / Stephanie Wambugu
The Marriage Plot From 50,000 Feet Above The Marriage Plot From 50,000 Feet Above
Kate Folks’s Sky Daddy pokes fun at the need for love at the core of most fiction—dramatizing one woman’s quest for romance through her very literal lust for airplanes.
Oct 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Laura Adamczyk
What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising? What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising?
A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.
Oct 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Clinton Williamson
The Immortal Poetry of Ron Padgett The Immortal Poetry of Ron Padgett
Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.
Oct 28, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Rhian Sasseen
The Future of Magazines… and the World The Future of Magazines… and the World
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.
Oct 27, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
How My Grandmother Remembers the Nakba How My Grandmother Remembers the Nakba
In 1948, my family fled Palestine when Zionists took over. I pieced their story together from a box of letters and diary entries.
Oct 25, 2025 / Tareq Baconi
What T.J. Clark Sees What T.J. Clark Sees
His art criticism reaches rarified heights—combining style, rigor, and politics like almost no one else.
Oct 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky