Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions
The artist’s final film tested her belief that love could be stronger than the will to power.
Dec 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Donald Glover Experiment The Donald Glover Experiment
Who says the comedian, actor, rapper, TV writer can’t be everything all at once?
Dec 13, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
Return Return
1 Better to collect miniature trolls beside toy bridges and arrange them on doilies. Best we commemorate old fears until our heads are full lest we trump up some flesh and blood de…
Dec 1, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Rae Armantrout
Bruce Springsteen’s Redemption Song Bruce Springsteen’s Redemption Song
The musician delivers a flawed but exquisitely moving and detailed new memoir.
Dec 1, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger? Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger?
Martha Nussbaum’s new book about the dangers of anger tells us more about the limits of the liberal mindset than the actual world of politics.
Nov 30, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Amia Srinivasan
Wideman’s Ghosts Wideman’s Ghosts
A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.
Nov 29, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
Film Noir at Gallop Park, On the Edge Film Noir at Gallop Park, On the Edge
of suburbia in flux behind one of the town’s, count ’em, two mega high schools. The sometimes-tended-to nature preserve where green & green slide crisp between brisk handshakes…
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Marcus Wicker
Entering Death, Davy Crockett Remembers a Row of Georgian Trees Entering Death, Davy Crockett Remembers a Row of Georgian Trees
Here someone to talk to would be nice said no one under all these peaches, red and ancient, until each falls the slowest fall the cardinal’s ever witnessed as it cuts through dewy…
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / William Brewer
Those Wondrous Powers Those Wondrous Powers
What Arrival offers is so valuable that you might almost choose to pretend that someone knew we were going to need this picture after Trump’s election.
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Criticism in the Twilight Criticism in the Twilight
What role can the critic play in today’s uncertain times?
Nov 16, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Dames