Le Pen’s Third Try for the Presidency Fails Le Pen’s Third Try for the Presidency Fails
You ran again and then you ran again, And still the French did not elect Le Pen. They knew you could have done a lot of harm If number three turned out to be the charm. We hope the…
May 3, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance
Lynn Garafola’s biography of the dancer and choreographer charts her globetrotting life and radical art.
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Me Too and the Not Me Novel Me Too and the Not Me Novel
Julia May Jonas’s new novel is a study of a campus scandal and a woman caught in the middle of it.
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Laura Marsh
What Is Left of History? What Is Left of History?
Joan Scott’s On the Judgment of History asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
John Keene’s Poetry of Others John Keene’s Poetry of Others
In Punks, the self is never static and cannot exist outside its relationships to others.
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ken Chen
The Ambitious and Overstuffed World of Hanya Yanagihara The Ambitious and Overstuffed World of Hanya Yanagihara
To Paradise attempts to break out of the common insularity of contemporary fiction, but in doing so it often ends up focusing more on the author.
May 2, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Tope Folarin
Antonio Di Benedetto and the Sound of Madness Antonio Di Benedetto and the Sound of Madness
His bleak and surreal 1964 novel The Silentiary examines one man’s quest for quiet.
Apr 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Dustin Illingworth
Now Amazon Is Being Challenged in the Boardroom as Well Now Amazon Is Being Challenged in the Boardroom as Well
A campaign by New York and Illinois pension fund leaders, led by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, aims to pressure the company on its shocking record on workplace safety and ...
Apr 26, 2022 / Nathan Newman
What the Year 2000 Wrought What the Year 2000 Wrought
A conversation with Andrew Rice about his book The Year That Broke America, the chaotic politics of the aughts, and how that decade’s eccentric characters defined American life.&nb...
Apr 26, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alana Pockros
The Zoological Nightmares of Rafael Bernal The Zoological Nightmares of Rafael Bernal
The Mexican writer’s 1947 novel His Name Was Death dramatizes humanity’s ecological arrogance through the story of a mosquito swarm with plans of world destruction.
Apr 25, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Lucas Iberico Lozada