Do Revolutions Have a Secret Ingredient? Do Revolutions Have a Secret Ingredient?
A conversation with Gal Beckerman about his book, The Quiet Before, on the hushed moments and activities that precede social change
Apr 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jasmine Liu
Antonio Di Benedetto and the Sound of Madness Antonio Di Benedetto and the Sound of Madness
His bleak and surreal 1964 novel The Silentiary examines one man’s quest for quiet.
Apr 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Dustin Illingworth
What the Year 2000 Wrought What the Year 2000 Wrought
A conversation with Andrew Rice about his book The Year That Broke America, the chaotic politics of the aughts, and how that decade’s eccentric characters defined American life.&nb...
Apr 26, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alana Pockros
The Zoological Nightmares of Rafael Bernal The Zoological Nightmares of Rafael Bernal
The Mexican writer’s 1947 novel His Name Was Death dramatizes humanity’s ecological arrogance through the story of a mosquito swarm with plans of world destruction.
Apr 25, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Lucas Iberico Lozada
The New York Times Book Review at a Crossroads The New York Times Book Review at a Crossroads
What does the future hold for one of United States’ oldest literary institutions?
Apr 21, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta
The Damning Legacy of Clintonism The Damning Legacy of Clintonism
A conversation with Lily Geismer about her new book Left Behind, the misguided market guided policy of the New Democrats, and the failures of Bill Clinton.
Apr 20, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Leifer
The Many Lives of Billy Wilder The Many Lives of Billy Wilder
From Galicia to Berlin to Paris and eventually to Hollywood, the prolific director and screenwriter never let go of what proved to be his most formative experience: being in a stat...
Apr 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
Couplets Couplets
I became myself. I became myself. No, I always was myself. There’s no such person as myself. I wouldn’t have to turn my eye inward, I thought, if I could train my eye on him—the on…
Apr 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Millner
Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy
Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found hope and resistance in the ruins of the American city.
Apr 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jared Loggins
Turning Theory Into Art Turning Theory Into Art
Anna Ostoya transforms Chantal Mouffe’s writing into collages, with the hope of making her ideas more available to the masses.
Apr 14, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jonah Goldman Kay