Overture to a Tragedy Overture to a Tragedy
Greetings to you who holds me close. I hold you close because of your beauty (I wanted to possess your beauty)— The beauty which leaves your body that remains. Greetings to you who…
Apr 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kim Ok & translated by Ryan Choi
A Poem A Poem
It is not normal, a woman says Never has been, another said Ordinary, the men women make In parks, corners of street, rhyme Daily, I shut the window I pass messages by The so-calle…
Apr 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jos Charles
How Covid Transformed US Theater How Covid Transformed US Theater
The art form has been forced to reinvent itself.
Apr 20, 2021 / Feature / Alisa Solomon
Marx for Our Times Marx for Our Times
A new book explores the social democratic impulses and Jewish origins of Karl Marx.
Apr 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
The Rigorous Satire of Search Party The Rigorous Satire of "Search Party"
In its fourth season, the HBO show cements its status as cutting, if imperfect, send-up of millennial self-actualization.
Apr 15, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi
Undanced Dances During a Pandemic Undanced Dances During a Pandemic
From inside a California prison come choreographies of the mind.
Apr 14, 2021 / Suchi Branfman
B. Traven: Fiction’s Forgotten Radical B. Traven: Fiction’s Forgotten Radical
The enigmatic author’s anarcho-communist politics seep into his novels about wage labor, class consciousness, and the violence of capital.
Apr 14, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Clinton Williamson