Courage Courage
Stillness until six, the yards and porches giant toy sets for the street cats. Each sleep a baffling practice for leaving you behind entirely, even if we’re touching hands. For the…
Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Nate Klug
Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages Translating an Autopsy, or To the Man Autopsied Into 99 Pages
Please know that I read them all and could not weep, afraid to compromise the task I was handed: to reconstitute this you in the Spanish tongue. Know that I aimed to honor what the…
Mar 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / José A. Rodríguez
John Ashbery’s Day Job John Ashbery’s Day Job
The poet as art critic.
Mar 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Women of Wages for Housework The Women of Wages for Housework
A new book edited by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin helps capture the excitement and ideas of a movement that had modest origins but spread around the world within several ...
Mar 14, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Jaffe
Music for Dark Times Music for Dark Times
MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm.
Mar 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment
The genre that Pinker’s latest book most closely resembles is not 18th-century philosophie but a TED Talk.
Mar 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
Zadie Smith’s Dream City Zadie Smith’s Dream City
In a moment when ideological surety is the order of the day, Feel Free asks us to remember that another mode of thought is possible.
Mar 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Ismail Muhammad
The Surrealist Grace of Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ The Surrealist Grace of Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’
At any given moment, it can feel like a family drama, a Southern Gothic horror story, and a sketch comedy.
Mar 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley
Rejjie Snow’s Borderless Music Rejjie Snow’s Borderless Music
Dear Annie, the Irish rapper’s studio debut, is a striking picture of international collaboration.
Feb 28, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Briana Younger
Daniel Joseph Martinez’s Blunt Statements Daniel Joseph Martinez’s Blunt Statements
What does it mean for an American artist to make photographs using the image of the German revolutionary Ulrike Meinhof?
Feb 23, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky