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Books & the Arts
December 28, 2022
The Faith of Halldór Laxness
Salka Valka
, the first novel written after the Nobel Prize winner’s apparent loss of faith, betrays an ongoing religious aesthetic.
Jack Hanson
December 28, 2022
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Wild and Kinetic EO
If
Au Hasard Balthazar
is austere and precise,
EO
is excessive and elusive.
J. Hoberman
December 28, 2022
Rachel Aviv’s Report From Psychiatry’s Gray Zones
Her debut,
Strangers to Ourselves
, asks: Who shapes the story of someone’s illness?
Kevin Lozano
December 22, 2022
Emmanuel Carrère’s Brilliant Narcissism
His latest “nonfiction novel,”
Yoga
, explores his favorite theme: himself.
Max Norman
December 21, 2022
The Most Dangerous Architect in America
Gregory Ain wanted to create social housing in Los Angeles. Dogged by the FBI, his hope for more egalitarian architecture never came to be.
Kate Wolf
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December 20, 2022
Michael Cimino, a Chaotic Auteur
A new biography examines the work of a flamboyant director who placed himself at the center of his own private Hollywood cosmology.
Adam Nayman
December 19, 2022
Beyond Zombie Figuration
The craze for figurative painting might be at an impasse. These three painters stand above the pack, making work that challenges the very idea of the form.
Barry Schwabsky
December 15, 2022
The Mythology of George Balanchine
A conversation with Jennifer Homans about the ballet master’s literary influences, his complicated legacy, and the metaphysical side of dance.
Dilara O’Neil
December 14, 2022
The Radical Internationalism of the Spanish Civil War
A new graphic history charts the exploits of those Americans serving in the war’s International Brigades.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
December 13, 2022
Congo: Curriculum Vitae (excerpt)
Alain Mabanckou
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