The Trials of Jimmy Carter The Trials of Jimmy Carter
The president without a party.
Jul 5, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire
The radical vision of the Martinique poet and politician.
Jul 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs
Kamasi Washington’s Love Letter Kamasi Washington’s Love Letter
Heaven and Earth is a bold step in Washington’s attempt to make music that explores deeper states of consciousness.
Jun 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster? What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster?
Hobbes for an age of accelerated climate change.
Jun 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Alyssa Battistoni
How Did Vietnam Transform White Supremacy? How Did Vietnam Transform White Supremacy?
Kathleen Belew’s sobering new history tracks the hidden relationship between the war and a resurgence in racial violence.
Jun 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Patrick Blanchfield
James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, and the Politics of Southern Multiculturalism
The search for cultural diversity and social equality.
Jun 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II
The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’ The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’
Adam Winkler's new history argues that the problem with Citizens United is its inability to see the distorting effects of concentrated wealth.
Jun 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Cole
Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated
Taking drugs and recovering are not always as incompatible as they seem.
Jun 5, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Away With Monsieur Periné Away With Monsieur Periné
The Colombian band delicately balances their idiosyncratic swing sound with elements of Latin pop music.
Jun 1, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
The Presence and Absence of Basquiat The Presence and Absence of Basquiat
You’d have to go back to Bloomsbury to find another set as insular, self-promoting, self-destructive, imitated, parodied, publicized, and at last mythologized as the crowd that hun…
May 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans