The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance” The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance”
The appeal of the Apple TV+ series is how it dramatizes our alienation from labor.
Mar 18, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
How Atlanta Became a Walkable City How Atlanta Became a Walkable City
The Beltline and Georgia's experiment in pedestrian spaces.
Mar 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs
Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Why “The Living Mountain” Endures
Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.
Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell
Andrée Blouin’s Revolutionary Lives Andrée Blouin’s Revolutionary Lives
The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent.
Mar 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bill Fletcher Jr.
The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?” The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”
Mar 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sumita Chakraborty
The Making of a Cold War Spy The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.
Mar 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild
The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller
How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate?
Mar 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game
The artist’s installation at MOMA PS1 is not just a public work of art in the form of a playground but also a comment on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.
Mar 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Will Fenstermaker
Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots
With his latest novel, Entitlement, he asks: Can wealth inequality make you lose your mind?
Mar 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman