A Century of Struggle in Palestine A Century of Struggle in Palestine
Rashid Khalidi’s new history offers a political and personal portrait of more than a hundred years of colonization and resistance in Palestine.
Jul 27, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kaleem Hawa
How an Artist’s Diary Can Teach Us New Ways of Seeing How an Artist’s Diary Can Teach Us New Ways of Seeing
Rosemary Mayer’s journal from 1971 illuminates not just her work but also how a creative person makes sense of a life.
Jul 23, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Thea Ballard
Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Emotional Science Project’ Bernadette Mayer’s ‘Emotional Science Project’
Flitting between the intimate and the impersonal, the poet’s photographic project Memory is a hallmark of American conceptualism.
Jul 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Tausif Noor
Shaking Up Your Perceptions Shaking Up Your Perceptions
How films chosen for the Human Rights Watch Film Festival test the limits of both authority and documentary filmmaking.
Jul 16, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Saviors Saviors
Spiders under the furniture cut loose the papery drained bodies as simple testaments of just how valuable they have been how surrounded we were…
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Allan Peterson
How Becoming a Mother Is Like Space Travel How Becoming a Mother Is Like Space Travel
The astronaut told us he didn’t look out the window for eight and a half minutes as the rocket launched him beyond our atmosphere. Terrifying things happened— ground vanished, boos…
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Catherine Pierce
On the Record’s Act of Witness On the Record’s Act of Witness
Telling the stories of three women who accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault, the documentary is a powerful case study in how institutions have failed Black women.
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
J.M. Coetzee’s States of Exile J.M. Coetzee’s States of Exile
In writing an allegory that is barely an allegory and a trilogy of novels that are often not novels, Coetzee appears to have made his own literary displacement total.
Jul 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
The Many Lives of Catherine the Great The Many Lives of Catherine the Great
A new Hulu show presents the life of the Russian empress as a narrative of lean-in empowerment. But was it?
Jul 13, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Pinkham
Not Catharsis but Vengeance: The Startling Fiction of Fernanda Melchor Not Catharsis but Vengeance: The Startling Fiction of Fernanda Melchor
Her novel Hurricane Season burrows into the circumstances of a small-town murder and what it says about a society that disregards femicide.
Jul 9, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Lucas Iberico Lozada