The Brutal Verisimilitude of “The Northman” The Brutal Verisimilitude of “The Northman”
Robert Eggers’s latest work, a Viking epic, pushes his obsessive and detail-oriented filmmaking to its limit.
Jun 30, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick” Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”
Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville's great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.
Jun 29, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby
The Light The Light
Isn’t it the work of those of us who work to make new tools with the tools we are given, hammering matter into matter more adapted to the hand than to the memory of a hand, less to…
Jun 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Donnelly
Nocturne Nocturne
When at a loss for words—during, perhaps, a time of want or desire, when one’s body is overwhelmed by light, as if by the effect of Ketamine or MDMA, when overwhelmed by the weigh…
Jun 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kwame Opoku-Duku
The Reflections of Kendrick Lamar The Reflections of Kendrick Lamar
His intimate new album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers lifts a mirror to his listeners.
Jun 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Bennett
Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays
In her third novel, Melchor turns her allegorical powers in an even more explicitly political direction.
Jun 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Nicolás Medina Mora
A Staggering Story of Palestinian Exile A Staggering Story of Palestinian Exile
Mona Mansour’s The Vagrant Trilogy is the Public Theater’s first full-length, main-stage production to address the aftermath of the Nakba.
Jun 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
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N In America, the land is a ghost of the land In America, the land is the land of the ghost In America, the land of the ghost in the land In America, the land is…
Jun 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
What Do We Do About the Davos Class? What Do We Do About the Davos Class?
Peter S. Goodman dissects the morally bankrupt philosophy of the global financial elite in Davos Man, offering a damning picture of the wealthy's influence on world politics.
Jun 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Nick Serpe
The World-Making Aesthetic of Hong Sangsoo The World-Making Aesthetic of Hong Sangsoo
While he has long been seen as an apolitical filmmaker, his work is anything but. The auteur’s films engage with the dreams and contradictions of Korea like no other.
Jun 21, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Dennis Zhou