The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace
The Hudson Yards cultural center proves—yet again—that art is inseparable from commerce.
May 23, 2019 / Tiana Reid
Morgan Bassichis’s Haunted American Songbook Morgan Bassichis’s Haunted American Songbook
The performer’s work presents a riotous vision of what an intergenerational left might look like.
May 23, 2019 / Ari M. Brostoff
Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’ Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’
Nathan Englander's third novel tries to satirize unthinking religiosity, lazy secularism, and the nascent gig economy—but fails to impress.
May 22, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
Mange Meat Mange Meat
We’re so late-stage that we trade our storm-wet cash for synthetic fuzz, as if fleece wasn’t the shorn warmth of a bleating thing. There is a new wolf in me this winter and I can’t…
May 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Alicia Mountain
Masters of the Uterus Masters of the Uterus
Conservative men celebrate the restoration of their natural role.
May 21, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels John Lanchester’s Eerily Resonant Novel About Borders and Rising Sea Levels
His speculative new novel, The Wall, imagines a dystopian future but offers us a warning about our present.
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy
In her new book, King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent situates the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a longer history of ...
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II
David Treuer’s Monumental History of Native American Life in the 20th Century David Treuer’s Monumental History of Native American Life in the 20th Century
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee tells the story of Native life as it flourished amidst hardship.
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / E. Tammy Kim
Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off
Can we escape the Internet?
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano
The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk