July Calendar July Calendar
Recording recent history, month by month.
Aug 19, 2021 / OppArt / India Tresselt
The Distortions of Pinochet The Distortions of Pinochet
Nona Fernández’s novels reckon with the Chilean dictatorship through surreality and memory.
Aug 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Lucas Iberico Lozada
Sandi Tan’s Magical Americana Sandi Tan’s Magical Americana
Her new novel, Lurkers, captures the defiant and surreal exuberance that has defined her work across fiction and film.
Aug 18, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Liu
Mythos and Cliché: The Fractured History of Los Angeles Mythos and Cliché: The Fractured History of Los Angeles
Learning from and reckoning with the stories writers tell about a world-historical city.
Aug 17, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wolf
Art and Exile in the Third Republic Art and Exile in the Third Republic
James McAuley’s The House of Fragile Things examines the travails of a circle of Jewish art collectors, tracing a history of betrayal and dispossession.
Aug 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Stamler
A Meditation on Life and… A Meditation on Life and…
Musings in a pandemic.
Aug 13, 2021 / OppArt / Elizabeth Haidle
Talking Radical Media With Noam Chomsky Talking Radical Media With Noam Chomsky
The 92-year-old leftist sees meaningful progress in news coverage.
Aug 13, 2021 / Q&A / Victor Pickard
The Long History of American Cruelty The Long History of American Cruelty
A conversation with Adam Serwer about the ideological roots of Trumpism, the failures of the Reconstruction era, and his new book, The Cruelty Is the Point.
Aug 12, 2021 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
One Country, Two Systems One Country, Two Systems
It can be seen black and white.
Aug 11, 2021 / OppArt / Jesse Duquette
Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau
“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?”
Aug 11, 2021 / Feature / Wen Stephenson