The Work of Black Life: A Conversation With Christina Sharpe The Work of Black Life: A Conversation With Christina Sharpe
In Ordinary Notes, a extraordinary work of memoir, poetry, and criticism, she writes a love letter to Black art.
Dec 8, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rhoda Feng
My Last Conversation With Norman Lear My Last Conversation With Norman Lear
He invented modern television. And he still found time to nurture his political causes, from People for the American Way to The Nation.
Dec 7, 2023 / Obituary / Joan Walsh
A New York Cult That Promised the End of the Nuclear Family A New York Cult That Promised the End of the Nuclear Family
Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians documents the sordid history and fascinating intellectual roots of a psychotherapy group that proposed a utopian alternative to conventional fa...
Dec 7, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Callie Hitchcock
Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists Hélène Cixous, a Poet Among Theorists
In Well-Kept Ruins, a key example of her late style, a hybrid and dreamlike form of social theory comes into focus.
Dec 6, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Ariel Porte
Siddhartha Deb and the Politics of Fiction Siddhartha Deb and the Politics of Fiction
A conversation with the novelist and journalist about India, colonialism, the Union Carbide catastrophe, solidarity, history in literature, and his novel, The Light at the End of ...
Dec 6, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Feroz Rather
“Let’s Wait Till Israel Says Something”: Why the Media Has Failed the Test of the War in Gaza “Let’s Wait Till Israel Says Something”: Why the Media Has Failed the Test of the War in Gaza
A dispatch from the front lines of the information war.
Dec 5, 2023 / Razia Iqbal
History According to Ridley Scott History According to Ridley Scott
Ultimately what we learn in Napoleon says far more about the director than it does about Napoleon.
Dec 4, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Mike Duncan
Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer Confront the Holocaust Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer Confront the Holocaust
In Zones of Interest and Occupied City, the two filmmakers attempt to depict the ordinary fascism and everyday violence of World War II.
Dec 4, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe
Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment.
Dec 4, 2023 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
