Yeats’ Stance

Jean Valentine

My Husband Tells Me About a Man Who Doesn’t Kill Himself

Eugenia Leigh

How Will Capitalism End?

Both the origins and the death of our economic system has become an almost intractable riddle for theorists to solve. 

Daniel Luban

The Worldmaking of N.K. Jemisin

Through her speculative fiction, Jemisin builds worlds and probes them—exploring who they work for and how.

Stephen Kearse

Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline

The artist's first solo show, is a reminder that pleasure is inseparable from the joint projects of abolition and freedom.

Tal Milovina

The Interior Lives of the Transnational Asian Diaspora

Sheung-King’s novel is rooted in a world that is disinterested in the white gaze and imagines a different kind of diasporic fiction.

Thea Lim

When the Painting Has Really Begun

On the mid-career work of Cecily Brown and Inka Essenhigh.

Barry Schwabsky

The Pleasures of Shirley Hazzard’s Intricate Fictions

Her stories offer the opulent doom of ancient tragedy wrapped in mid-century garb.

Dustin Illingworth

A Soundtrack for the American Subconscious

Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album is not unlike a radio broadcast from another reality.

Bijan Stephen

Life Preserver

Javier Velaza