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May 19, 2022
The Disastrous History of Rikers
How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.
Kay Gabriel
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May 18, 2022
Olga Ravn’s Office Novel in Space
The Employees offers a surreal and biting account of all the hazards and indignities of the contemporary workplace.
Jessica Loudis
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May 17, 2022
The Sea According to Rachel Carson
Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.
Hannah Gold
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May 16, 2022
The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation
Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects.
Howard W. French
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May 12, 2022
Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist
Barbara Bloemink’s biography paints a complicated picture of an artist whose work both celebrated and critiqued the upper echelons of early-20th-century cultural life.
Max Pearl
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May 11, 2022
The Whitney Biennial Isn’t As Bad as It Looks
But it sure does make a poor first impression.
Barry Schwabsky
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May 11, 2022
Civic Engagement In an Age of Perpetual War
A conversation with Phil Klay about his new book Uncertain Ground and the moral imperatives and ambiguities of civilian life amidst constant conflict.
Noah Flora
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May 10, 2022
China’s Battle for Cultural Power Begins at the Box Office
A conversation with Erich Schwartzel about the vexed relationship between Hollywood and Beijing, how movies became a vehicle for Chinese ideology, and his new book Red Carpet.
Han Zhang
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May 9, 2022
When Did the Ruling Class Get Woke?
A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book Elite Capture, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing.
Ishan Desai-Geller
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May 5, 2022
The Ground Beneath Us: On the Photographs of An-My Lê
Her photos, whose subjects range from the Vietnamese countryside to the Rio Grande border, reveal hidden histories and elicit profound reconsiderations of the familiar.
Alex Jen