Jordan Peterson’s New Rules Are Old News Jordan Peterson’s New Rules Are Old News
The Canadian contrarian is back with another book. It isn’t any better than the last one.
May 18, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Richard Wagner’s Pandemonium Richard Wagner’s Pandemonium
The contested life and afterlife of the composer.
May 18, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Mina Tavakoli
The City That Embodies the United States’ Contradictions The City That Embodies the United States’ Contradictions
In the history of St. Louis, we find both a radical and reactionary past—and a more hopeful future too.
May 17, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II
The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer The Mundane and Alienated Life of a Freelancer
Kavita Bedford’s novel Friends and Dark Shapes explores the false promises and precarity of writing in the age of the gig economy.
May 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Lily Meyer
Black Families Matter Black Families Matter
Honoring black lives, every day.
May 12, 2021 / OppArt / Isis Davis-Marks
Mike Gold, Avant-Garde Bard of Proletarian New York Mike Gold, Avant-Garde Bard of Proletarian New York
A new biography charts Gold's many lives—as a novelist and journalist, as a working-class militant, and as a forerunner to the Beats.
May 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
History Lessons From 3021 History Lessons From 3021
Maybe one day the future will learn from our mistakes.
May 11, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow
Diane Seuss’s American Gothic Diane Seuss’s American Gothic
frank: sonnets is an oracular collection of verse on mortality, tragedy, love, and life.
May 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Stroh