The Entwined Lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso The Entwined Lives of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso
Understanding Picasso’s art, Gilot’s memoir shows, is inseparable from understanding both his genius and monstrousness.
Dec 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
Decolonization and the Pursuit of an Egalitarian International Order Decolonization and the Pursuit of an Egalitarian International Order
A new book looks at the mid-20th century cohort of African and Caribbean leaders who attempted to demand new rules from the world system.
Dec 23, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Immerwahr
A Decade That Changed the Nation A Decade That Changed the Nation
A look back on the stories that shaped the past 10 years, and helped inform the fight for a more radical and equitable future.
Dec 23, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and D.D. Guttenplan
A Realist’s Guide to Progressive Giving A Realist’s Guide to Progressive Giving
Your tax dollars end up doing a lot of harm. Here’s a way to offset the damage.
Dec 20, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt
‘We Were Born From Beauty’: Ocean Vuong’s Graceful Queer Fiction ‘We Were Born From Beauty’: Ocean Vuong’s Graceful Queer Fiction
In the poet’s debut novel, aesthetic experience is a way of constructing meaning in the shambles of history, racism, and colonialism.
Dec 19, 2019 / Rosemarie Ho
The Detective In Chief Strikes Back The Detective In Chief Strikes Back
Logic, facts, and mountains of evidence are no match for the greatest intellect of all time.
Dec 17, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis The Deep Roots of Liberal Democracy’s Crisis
A new history of North Atlantic democracies argues that they were already undergoing a serious crisis more than four decades ago.
Dec 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature Toni Morrison’s Revolution in American Literature
As with Pilate, the fierce outsider and moral conscience of Song of Solomon, Morrison never asked for the proverbial seat at the table. Instead, she pulled the entire table over to...
Dec 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
The Radical Life and Times of Crystal Eastman The Radical Life and Times of Crystal Eastman
A new biography reveals how the feminist, pacifist, labor activist, and socialist fused the best strains of American leftism into one.
Dec 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Advice, From One Giant of 20th Century Literature to Another Advice, From One Giant of 20th Century Literature to Another
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1967 entreaty to José Donoso.
Dec 16, 2019 / Kurt Vonnegut