A European Union? A European Union?
Stefan Zweig’s essays in Messages From a Lost World are a product of his displacement and a sharp reminder to citizens about the agony in the present age of the refugee.
Mar 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Gavin Jacobson
Get Information Get Information
Beyoncé’s “Formation” reflects today’s movement from black rage toward a racialized revolutionary politics.
Mar 9, 2016 / Joshua Clover
A Critic’s Job of Work A Critic’s Job of Work
I don’t see my job as making or breaking an artist. I have other responsibilities toward art.
Mar 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
My Life as a Tour-Bus Driver in LA My Life as a Tour-Bus Driver in LA
It sent me right back to The Day of the Locust—the masses ultimately want to cannibalize their celebrity gods.
Feb 25, 2016 / Mike Davis
‘Mission Chinese Food Cookbook’: Tell Them the Truth ‘Mission Chinese Food Cookbook’: Tell Them the Truth
Not all cookbooks would benefit from the Mission treatment, but, perhaps, quite a few memoirs would.
Feb 25, 2016 / Wei Tchou
A Larger Life A Larger Life
What A Little Life, the churn of narrative nonfiction, and, thus, likely our real views of victims of trauma are missing is the recognition of agency.
Feb 24, 2016 / Larissa Pham
Visible and Invisible Women: ‘Pairing Picasso’ at the MFA Visible and Invisible Women: ‘Pairing Picasso’ at the MFA
The woman’s body is the unspoken subject of a remarkable new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
Feb 16, 2016 / Eve L. Ewing
Who Was Kafka? Who Was Kafka?
Feb 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Reiner Stach
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Beautiful Mind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Beautiful Mind
Sitting down with a basketball legend with a genius-level IQ demands eclectic questions and invites delicious answers.
Jan 11, 2016 / Dave Zirin
December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published
“The duty is not only to memorialize the fallen, it is also to confront the living.”
Dec 28, 2015 / Richard Kreitner