In the Shadow of Sappho In the Shadow of Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s After Sappho is a unique work of fiction that resembles a group biography on the travails of 20th-century queer feminist artists.
Jul 13, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Lily Houston Smith
The Strange Legacy of “Francisco,” a Novel of Black Bohemianism The Strange Legacy of “Francisco,” a Novel of Black Bohemianism
Over the years, Alison Mills Newman has become disillusioned with her work of experimental fiction. Its story is now caught between radical aesthetics and conservative politics.
Jul 12, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Read Banned Books! Read Banned Books!
There is a growing number of books bans across the US.
Jul 11, 2023 / OppArt / Judy Polstra
The Other Kennedy Curse The Other Kennedy Curse
Kennedy family mythology is bad history, bad politics—and perhaps as unfair to the living Kennedys as to anyone else.
The Many Ghosts of Juan de Pareja The Many Ghosts of Juan de Pareja
Through the life of the 17th-century artist, we can find an entangled history of slavery, Black figuration, and art.
Jul 11, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Hunter Himes
Ron DeSantis, American Psycho Ron DeSantis, American Psycho
The Florida governor’s irony-poisoned ad uses far-right memes to sanction homophobic and transphobic violence.
Jul 10, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Aleksandar Hemon’s Kaleidoscopic Fiction of War and Peace Aleksandar Hemon’s Kaleidoscopic Fiction of War and Peace
While most of his studies of dislocation were set in the present, in his new novel he examines a lost past.
Jul 10, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
Henry Kissinger, Elliott Abrams, and the Rot of American Foreign Policy Henry Kissinger, Elliott Abrams, and the Rot of American Foreign Policy
Our bipartisan elite is always willing to forgive war crimes by its made men.
Jul 7, 2023 / Jeet Heer
A Dark Tour Through Fernanda Melchor’s Veracruz A Dark Tour Through Fernanda Melchor’s Veracruz
Before she was a novelist, she covered crime and human interest for Mexican magazines. A collection of her nonfiction, This Is Not Miami,shows the building blocks of her fiction.&n...
Jul 6, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Laura Adamczyk