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June 13, 2022
Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism
What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?
Malcolm Harris
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June 10, 2022
The Real Problem With Dianne Feinstein Isn’t Her Age
Gerontocracy is a smokescreen for the danger of centrism.
Jeet Heer
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June 1, 2022
Hubert Harrison, Giant of Harlem Radicalism
A two-volume biography tracks the life and times of one of Harlem’s leading socialists.
Robert Greene II
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May 30, 2022
The Art of Vivian Maier
Her photography made its subject everyday life, but her life makes us ask: Who gets to be an artist?
Sarah Jaffe
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May 12, 2022
Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist
Barbara Bloemink’s biography paints a complicated picture of an artist whose work both celebrated and critiqued the upper echelons of early-20th-century cultural life.
Max Pearl
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May 3, 2022
Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance
Lynn Garafola’s biography of the dancer and choreographer charts her globetrotting life and radical art.
Jennifer Wilson
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April 25, 2022
It’s Woody Guthrie’s World. We Just Live in It.
A new show at the Morgan Library illuminates the legendary folk singer’s jam-packed life.
Gene Seymour
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April 19, 2022
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 state of exile.
Noah Isenberg
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April 5, 2022
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March 24, 2022
Meet the Countess With a Hole in Her Head
Amanda Feilding may be an eccentric British aristocrat. But she deserves full credit for funding significant research into psychedelics long before it was either cool or respectable.
Zoe Cormier