Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Struggle Between Good and Evil Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Struggle Between Good and Evil
His novel Mr. President is a masterwork of political fiction and a prime example of linguistic beauty in the Latin American tradition.
Jul 5, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Mario Vargas Llosa
The Tricky Politics of Ecological Restoration The Tricky Politics of Ecological Restoration
A conversation with Laura J. Martin about the Cold War origins of environmental management and her book Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration.
Jul 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Elias
Top 15 4th of July Songs Top 15 4th of July Songs
Not nearly enough Americans are aware that much of what the country considers America’s most patriotic music was created by artists with decidedly left-wing sympathies.
Jul 4, 2022 / Peter Rothberg
How Paula Rego’s Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation How Paula Rego’s Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation
When well-meaning critics described her subjects as downtrodden, Rego shot back, “These women are not victims.”
Jul 1, 2022 / Margaret Spillane
Elif Batuman Answers Our Burning Questions About the State of the Novel Elif Batuman Answers Our Burning Questions About the State of the Novel
A conversation about her new book Either/Or, the limits of aesthetic life, and much more.
Jul 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Najwa Jamal
The Brutal Verisimilitude of “The Northman” The Brutal Verisimilitude of “The Northman”
Robert Eggers’s latest work, a Viking epic, pushes his obsessive and detail-oriented filmmaking to its limit.
Jun 30, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Harlem Renaissance! Harlem Renaissance!
Mural at 125th Street, NYC.
Jun 29, 2022 / OppArt / Anonymous and Peter Kuper
Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick” Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”
Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville's great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.
Jun 29, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby
Election Night at the Trump White House Election Night at the Trump White House
’Twas said that finding wise advice Was something Donald Trump had mastered. So who’d he listen to that night? Just Rudy Giuliani, plastered.
Jun 28, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Light The Light
Isn’t it the work of those of us who work to make new tools with the tools we are given, hammering matter into matter more adapted to the hand than to the memory of a hand, less to…
Jun 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Donnelly