Hit Dogs Holler: What the Backlash Against Jonathan Glazer Says About Israel’s Defenders Hit Dogs Holler: What the Backlash Against Jonathan Glazer Says About Israel’s Defenders
The Zone of Interest was never a film of purely historical relevance. But when the director made that obvious in his Oscar acceptance, supporters of Israel’s war in Gaza erupted.
Mar 22, 2024 / David Klion
Far From a Kink, Donald Trump’s Dictator Fetish Puts Him Squarely in the Mainstream Far From a Kink, Donald Trump’s Dictator Fetish Puts Him Squarely in the Mainstream
The American elite has long had a soft spot for “our sons of bitches” like those Trump now befriends.
Mar 22, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Visions of Alice Coltrane The Visions of Alice Coltrane
In the years after her husband John’s death, the harpist discovered a sound all her own, a jazz rooted in acts of spirit and will.
Mar 21, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
Protests Are Supposed to Be an Inconvenience Protests Are Supposed to Be an Inconvenience
Critics of the climate activists who interrupted a recent Broadway play are missing the point.
Mar 19, 2024 / Caroline Levine
How Unions Are Made How Unions Are Made
A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us not only the story of the United Farm Workers but also how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.
Mar 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Juan Ignacio Mora
Lucy Sante and the Solitude and Solidarity of Transitioning Lucy Sante and the Solitude and Solidarity of Transitioning
In her new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name, Sante dissects her past in order to understand her future.
Mar 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt
The Flame Lights, but Doesn’t Cause Burns The Flame Lights, but Doesn’t Cause Burns
Oaxaca, Mexico: The role art plays to empower the people.
Mar 14, 2024 / Anonymous
Art During Wartime Art During Wartime
Can it really be that to call for sympathy with victims of murder and kidnapping is necessarily to demand violence in return?
Mar 14, 2024 / Barry Schwabsky
A Broadway Play’s Clumsy Intervention Into Antisemitism A Broadway Play’s Clumsy Intervention Into Antisemitism
Prayer for the French Republic is among a spate of recent dramas devoted to the precarity of Jewish life at the expense of solidarity.
Mar 14, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon