What’s Missing From “Dune: Part Two” What’s Missing From “Dune: Part Two”
While Frank Herbert’s original series was about the dangers of messianism, Denis Villeneuve’s rendition wields ambivalence like a secret weapon in its effort to avoid the tough qu...
Mar 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife
The pioneering poet expanded the possibilities of both poetry and autobiographical writing.
Mar 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby
The Enchanted Worlds of Marshall Sahlins The Enchanted Worlds of Marshall Sahlins
What if we saw the study of ghosts, gods, and other metapersons as worthy of a science of its own?
Mar 6, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Anna Della Subin
What James Baldwin Saw What James Baldwin Saw
A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.
Mar 5, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kelli Weston
Democracy and the Left Turn in Latin America Democracy and the Left Turn in Latin America
On this episode of American Prestige, professor Gabriel Hetland on the region’s shift to the left.
Mar 5, 2024 / Podcast / Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner
Dignity and Humanity Amid the Refugee Crisis Dignity and Humanity Amid the Refugee Crisis
Refugees at the Aida Palestinian Refugee Camp, West Bank, Palestine.
Are Autofiction and Reality TV the Same? Are Autofiction and Reality TV the Same?
A conversation with the literary critic Anna Kornbluh on her new book Immediacy, a searing indictment of a newly prevalent aesthetic of verisimilitude and the first person.
Mar 4, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lily Meyer
The Nixonian “New York Times” Stonewalls on a Discredited Article About Hamas and Rape The Nixonian “New York Times” Stonewalls on a Discredited Article About Hamas and Rape
The newspaper of record botches an important story about sexual violence on October 7.
Mar 1, 2024 / Jeet Heer
A Hidden History of Europe’s Pre-Modernist Women Artists A Hidden History of Europe’s Pre-Modernist Women Artists
A recent exhibition documenting four centuries of art from female painters and illustrators provides a new way of looking at an era of art history where women are often left out.
Feb 29, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky