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Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster horror period piece sets out to reinvent the creature feature—for better and for worse.
Apr 30, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics Weike Wang’s Meticulous Satires of Identity Politics
Rental House, a novel of marriage and manners, tries to make sense of how a blended family negotiates conflicts of race and class.
Apr 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Camille Bromley
Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction
In Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, he attempts to diagnose the apocalyptic nature of conservatism around the world.
Apr 28, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Nathan Taylor Pemberton
The Poetic Life of the Online Shopper The Poetic Life of the Online Shopper
Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews is a tender-hearted look at the art and pathos of consumerism.
Apr 23, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Stroh
Want to Understand the New Cold War? Look to Huawei. Want to Understand the New Cold War? Look to Huawei.
The tech company has come to symbolize the ongoing struggle between America and China.
Apr 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers
The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
Apr 21, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
David Cronenberg, Transformed David Cronenberg, Transformed
Two works—a new film, The Shrouds, and a career-spanning monograph by the film critic Violet Lucca—present a more sanguine image of the master of body horror.
Apr 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Semley
Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”? Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”?
A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.
Apr 15, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Mark Chiusano
Sigrid Nunez On and Off the Big Screen Sigrid Nunez On and Off the Big Screen
Two new films—Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Friend—attempt to adapt her work. Do they succeed?
Apr 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Chihaya
Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Roman Epic Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Roman Epic
In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution.
Apr 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Edna Bonhomme