An Intimate History of Hong Kong An Intimate History of Hong Kong
A conversation with Karen Cheung about her memoir The Impossible City, the nascent Hong Kong literary tradition, and understanding a period of upheaval through art and cultural exp...
May 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho
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
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy
The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction.
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Gerald Horne
To a Friend Returning to Aleppo To a Friend Returning to Aleppo
We opened a bottle of wine, summoned mountains overlooking ancient cities, & cities, those pits of unease, & we left your mother’s illness alone—your mother, who insists yo…
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Zeina Hashem Beck
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
Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web
Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies.
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Somers
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
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