Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Why “The Living Mountain” Endures
Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.
Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell
Andrée Blouin’s Revolutionary Lives Andrée Blouin’s Revolutionary Lives
The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent.
Mar 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bill Fletcher Jr.
The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?” The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”
Mar 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Sumita Chakraborty
The Making of a Cold War Spy The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.
Mar 11, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild
The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller
How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate?
Mar 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game
The artist’s installation at MOMA PS1 is not just a public work of art in the form of a playground but also a comment on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.
Mar 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Will Fenstermaker
Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots
With his latest novel, Entitlement, he asks: Can wealth inequality make you lose your mind?
Mar 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman
How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education? How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?
A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins.
Mar 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Elias
How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade
Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.
Mar 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers