Feral Gardens Feral Gardens
Danny Cooke’s Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl summons a lost history of familiar and alien dreams.
Feb 11, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Camus Redux Camus Redux
Today, Albert Camus is still alive but changed, thanks to the art of David Oelhoffen and Kamel Daoud.
Feb 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan
To Be (Charlie) or Not to Be (Charlie)? To Be (Charlie) or Not to Be (Charlie)?
Killing is not creating, and drawing is not killing. Charlie has the right to draw.
Feb 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Kamel Daoud
Evangelical Boilerplate Evangelical Boilerplate
Billy Graham’s innocuous blend of showmanship and salvation.
Feb 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Molly Worthen
Fortune’s Son Fortune’s Son
Why the line from Barry Goldwater to Ted Cruz runs over Nelson Rockefeller.
Feb 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
Latin Lives Latin Lives
Is the revival of a dead language breathing new life into the humanities?
Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Grafton
The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist
MoMA’s “Forever Now” trumpets art with a shallow sense of tradition.
Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Uncommon Catastrophes Uncommon Catastrophes
Reconsidering how the Middle East was transformed by World War I.
Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Tom Finn
Return Return
January robin, I want you to live more than I want you to stay and I want you to stay more than I want to live. Stipple your frost-fitted feet on the crunchsqueak of the cornsnow lit up with its own freezing. Your chest like morning-mouth blood on the pillow for reasons I’d rather not know. Cold-cramped wing fly you to Iowa for half-safety for these climes will climb to your beak. And all we hear from is heat and melt. Let that rumor your feather, fling you far.
Jan 26, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Richards
Bonfire of the Humanities Bonfire of the Humanities
Historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back.
Jan 21, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn