What Happened to Andrew Cuomo? What Happened to Andrew Cuomo?
Ross Barkan’s The Prince tracks how the son of a progressive New York governor transformed into one focused on one thing above all else: power.
Jul 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Raina Lipsitz
Celebrate Good Times Celebrate Good Times
The regime is having a birthday party, so we turn off the lights and pretend we’re sick. All night, happy americans honk their horns. We did it! they scream into our window. In the…
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Franny Choi
A Violent End A Violent End
the bears were swiping at the river getting nowhere Look I said to the bears the salmon are all gone because of I pointed that factory upstream What factory they said so I explaine…
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ben Purkert
Barry Jenkins’s American Saga Barry Jenkins’s American Saga
In The Underground Railroad, Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality.
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Where Would We Be Without the New Deal? Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.
Jul 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
The Rave According to Carl Craig The Rave According to Carl Craig
After the pandemic brought club life to a halt, the Detroit techno artist kept the party going in the unlikeliest of spaces.
Jul 22, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Zack Graham
Jeremy Cooper’s Art of Ambiguities Jeremy Cooper’s Art of Ambiguities
His epistolary novel Bolt From the Blue is a sort of Künstlerroman about artistic inspiration, parenthood, and the frustrations of interpretation.
Jul 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Haigney
Beatriz Bracher’s Family Histories Beatriz Bracher’s Family Histories
In Antonio, the novelist shows how the story of one family can help tell the larger story of inequality and violence in Brazilian life.
Jul 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta
Where Do Wars Come From? Where Do Wars Come From?
Two new books, Margaret MacMillan’s War and Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, offer close studies of how we end up, or almost end up, marching into war.
Jul 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Michael T. Klare
Can a Novel Capture the Tensions of Recent Queer History? Can a Novel Capture the Tensions of Recent Queer History?
An assimilationist and a liberationist play cat-and-mouse in Zak Salih’s debut novel Let’s Get Back to the Party.
Jul 15, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jake Nevins