Gretchen Bender’s Video Art Predicted the Bleak Future of Mass Media Gretchen Bender’s Video Art Predicted the Bleak Future of Mass Media
A retrospective of her art looks at the Pandora's box television unleashed and how we continue to reckon with the effects of an unrelenting, 24/7 visual culture.
Jun 17, 2019 / Hannah Stamler
Is Andrew Yang Serious or Kidding? It’s Dangerous Either Way. Is Andrew Yang Serious or Kidding? It’s Dangerous Either Way.
Blurring the lines between sincerity and irony in a presidential campaign is hazardous when the consequences are so real.
Jun 14, 2019 / Ed Burmila
Photographing the Otherworldly and the Abject Photographing the Otherworldly and the Abject
Barbara Ess’s lo-fi photos, which pluck scenes from our culture’s surveillance regime, make the banal seem terrifying and mystical.
Jun 14, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3502 Puzzle No. 3502
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Jerry and Carol translated Spanish poet (6,5) 7 and 27 Exclude that subatomic particle (6) 9 Split part of simple…
Jun 13, 2019 / Crossword / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Guardians of Civilization Guardians of Civilization
The truth hurts at times.
Jun 13, 2019 / OppArt / Kevin Kallaugher and Ed Hall
Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry
Ives’ second novel, Loudermilk, lampoons MFA writing programs and the inherited wealth that props them up.
Jun 12, 2019 / Charlie Markbreiter
Vasily Grossman in War and Peace Vasily Grossman in War and Peace
In both his life and his writing, the novelist and journalist captured the complications and contradictions of the Soviet century.
Jun 12, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Fitzpatrick
Adam Gopnik and the Cul-de-sac of 21st-Century Liberalism Adam Gopnik and the Cul-de-sac of 21st-Century Liberalism
In his new book, the New Yorker writer sets out to defend liberalism from its critics, but only ends up revealing its current limitations.
Jun 12, 2019 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
Inside the Fake News Factory Inside the Fake News Factory
The “Enemy of the People” is at it again!
Jun 11, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder A Peek Into a Future When the Border Wall Is Built and the 1 Percent Get Away With More Than Just Murder
Fernando A. Flores’s debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is unlike any border story you’ve read before.
Jun 10, 2019 / Joshua Rivera