Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.
Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.
The author opens up about his latest art exhibition, magic, failure and unexpected success.
The contrarian poet refused to toe any party line.
How the great Polish philosopher went from being an anticlerical scourge to an apostle of John Paul II.
Thomas Hirschhorn’s unmonumental monument to egalitarianism and Antonio Gramsci.
The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.


