How Laura Poitras Finds the Truth How Laura Poitras Finds the Truth
The director has a knack for getting people to tell her things they've never told anyone else—including her latest subject, Seymour Hersh.
Dec 18, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano
Organized Labor at a Crossroads Organized Labor at a Crossroads
How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work?
Dec 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Nelson Lichtenstein
Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters
after “Is My Living in Vain?”, 1980
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Karisma Price
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman
Forrest Gander’s Desert Phenomenology Forrest Gander’s Desert Phenomenology
His poems bridge the gap between nature’s wild expanse and the private space of one’s imagination.
Dec 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bailey Trela
Capitalism’s Toxic Nature Capitalism’s Toxic Nature
A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nat...
Dec 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time
The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key characteristics—the idea of time itself.
Dec 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Dilara O’Neil
Muriel Spark’s Magnetic Pull Muriel Spark’s Magnetic Pull
What made the Scottish novelist’s antic novels so appealing?
Dec 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Charlie Tyson